{"id":70638,"date":"2025-04-01T14:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/kuala-lumpur-putra-heights-fire-selangor-malaysia-explosion-updates"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:19:15","slug":"malaysia-fire-huge-blaze-erupts-near-kuala-lumpur-as-gas-pipeline-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70638","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia fire: huge blaze erupts near Kuala Lumpur as gas pipeline explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inferno spread to nearby homes, trapping residents, while full extent of damage still being assessed<\/p>\n<p>A fireball erupted from a burst gas pipeline outside Malaysia\u2019s largest city, injuring 145 people as it burned for several hours before being extinguished.<\/p>\n<p> The national oil company Petronas said the blaze started at one of its gas pipelines outside Kuala Lumpur. The inferno sent flames 20 storeys high and left a huge crater near a residential neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>The health minister, Dzulkefly Ahmad, was quoted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2025\/04\/1196021\/govt-petronas-repair-and-rebuild-properties-damaged-pipeline-fire\">New Straits Times<\/a> daily as saying 145 people including three children were injured. He said 67 people were still being treated at public hospitals, mostly for second and third-degree burns, while 37 others had sought treatment from clinics and private hospitals.<\/p>\n<p> The fire department said the fire damaged 190 houses and 148 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/kuala-lumpur-putra-heights-fire-selangor-malaysia-explosion-updates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inferno spread to nearby homes, trapping residents, while full extent of damage still being assessedA fireball erupted from a burst gas pipeline outside Malaysia\u2019s largest city, injuring 145 people as it burned for several hours before being extinguish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,733,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-gas","category-malaysia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70663,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70638\/revisions\/70663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}