Posted on 12/18/2022 2:14:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in the Salang Tunnel - which links the capital Kabul to the northern provinces - on Saturday evening.
The blaze spread to other vehicles before it was put out the next morning.
Some of the bodies were severely burned, a senior health official in Parwan said in quotes cited by AFP news agency.
The Salang Tunnel is 2.6km (1.6 miles) long and is located at an altitude of around 3,400m (11,154ft).
Hailed as an engineering masterpiece on its completion in the 1960s by the Soviet Union, the major route through the Hindu Kush mountains is often shut for days because of accidents and avalanches.
A fire in the tunnel in 1982 killed at least 400 people, although some estimates put the death toll in the thousands.
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It’s the will of Allah.
NO petroleum nor pyrotechnics should be halal.
***A fire in the tunnel in 1982 killed at least 400 people***
Is that the one where the Russians thought it was an attack and blocked the way out with a tank? People were caught between the tank and the fire. I still remember that!
Maybe Atlas Shrugged in Punjab?
Wyatt’s torch and the Winston (?) tunnel.
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Hailed as an engineering masterpiece on its completion in the 1960s by the Soviet Union...
1960s Soviet engineering masterpieces...yeah, that's kind of a short list...
Yep.
There is a reason one tends to avoid Aeroflot.
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Among the dead it was very hard to identify who was a male and who was a female
Good old dna will come through. Any trans would be correctly identified.
Tunnel fires are nasty.
Wait until an electric bus or semi-truck goes off in one of our tunnels.....
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