A MID-DAY EXPLOSION SUNDAY IN SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND, completely demolished an apartment building in the center of the city, leaving at least 12 people injured, some seriously.
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Miraculously, there were no deaths when what is believed to have been a natural gas explosion blew one woman out through a 2nd-story window and buried five other people under the rubble who were outside in a car. Another woman and a man are also in “critical but stable” condition in the hospital and four others are being treated in a burn unit.
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Supt Martin Whitelegg, from West Mercia Police, said: “There is no evidence that this was a criminal incident, we are not treating it as a crime at this current time. It is being treated as a probable gas leak… it is believed the explosion was caused by an escape of gas in the vicinity, either in the street or in the building.”
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A police spokesman said on-site investigations would continue for “several days, if not a week”. A Shropshire Fire and Rescue spokesman confirmed there had been ”quite a significant gas leak” but added that it was possible for this to have been caused by the explosion.
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Sources used: BBC News, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian.
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