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Braamfontein Explosion
The Braamfontein Explosion was an explosion in Braamfontein, a suburb of Johannesburg, in 1896. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
==Explosion==
On 16 February 1896, a freight train with eight trucks of dynamite - 2300 cases of 60lb each, or about 60 tonnes - was put in a siding at Braamfontein railway station. The dynamite was destined for nearby mines, but the mine's stores of dynamite were already full so the train was left in the siding - for days, in very hot weather - until there was somewhere to store the dynamite.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Nauseous Pit of Death – the Braamfontein Dynamite Explosion )〕
On the afternoon of 19 February, after labourers had started to unload the train, a shunter came to move it to another part of the siding; but after the impact of the shunter, the dynamite exploded. The explosion left a crater long, wide and deep. The explosion was heard up to away.
Suburbs as far away as Fordsburg were seriously damaged, and about 3,000 people lost their homes.
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