TWO people were injured in a chemical explosion at a city centre satellite campus of Pretoria Technikon on Monday. Technikon spokeswoman Willa de Ruyter identified the two as Trevor Haug, 40, and Samuel Monageng, 35 — both technikon employees. She said the men were moving chemicals at the technikon’s natural sciences campus in Vermeulen Street when the blast occurred. “It appears as if more people inhaled some of the gas released by the explosion, but we don’t have immediate details,” De Ruyter said. Pretoria Academic Hospital spokeswoman Dr Zola Njongwe said the two patients were in a serious but stable condition. They suffered 50% burn wounds, and are being treated in the hospital’s casualty ward.
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