Powerful explosion in the east of Barcelona

Filed under:Europe — posted by webmaster on March 17, 2008 @ 6:42 pm

Strong explosion has thundered on Monday morning in area Saint Marti, located in the east part of Barcelona.
Incident has occurred at 7:30 on local time. Explosion has thundered in the bottom part of an eight-story building, therefore it has caused partial crash of the building.
Under the preliminary information, 3 people were killed, 8 more people have received various traumas. More than 20 people have been taken from under fragments during saving operation.
The exact reasons of explosion are still unknown; however, the firemen tend to the version of outflow of gas.
Casual handling of gas devices quite often leads to tragically consequences. For last two months similar incidents occurred in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Great Britain, France and other countries.

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