The Juba tanker explosion was a

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explosion that occurred 17 September 2015 in a suburb of

Juba Juba () is the capital and largest city of South Sudan. The city is situated on the White Nile and also serves as the capital of the Central Equatoria State. It is the world's newest capital city to be elevated as such, and had a population ...

, the capital of

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. It killed an estimated 176 people, most casualties coming from the crowd that had converged on the scene of the leaking tanker. The

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dispatched aid to the suburb of Maridi after the incident. The death toll increased to 183 people being dead from the incident. It soon increased to 193 people dead.

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