A terrifying petrol leak hit Harare’s Central Business District Friday morning.
ZimEye.com can reveal staff members from several buildings around the 4th and 3rd street, had to be evacuated after an incessant stream gush of petrol suddenly began flooding the area close to President Robert Mugabe’s office and Parliament House.
At the time of writing it was suspected to be coming from the Total service station at Nelson Mandela and 4th street next to Beverly Court.
But Harare West MP Jessie Majome in an announcement indicated the leak is from the government’s CMED petrol station. “I have received an alert that the CMED service station along K Nkurumah ave is leaking fuel and can explode and the Total service station along Nelson Mandela Avenue between 3rd and 4th Street next to Beverly Court is closed off as it is nearby…The area has been sealed off because of the risk and businesses operating in the adjacent buildings are closed. If you know anyone who works in that area please inform them of this fire risk,” she wrote.
A Zimnat Insurace senior staff member who first confirmed the development, said the leak source could be the government’s CMED petrol station. The entire Zimnat Insurance building was “emptied” with staff being sent out en-masse to several outposts in Harare.
“Some were taken to our Avondale brand, others to Msasa Park, and some to Belgravia,” they told ZimEye.
“The leak could be the CMED or the service station at 4th street,” they said.
At the time of writing the leak was still being attended to. More to follow…