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04/06/2007
Teenage girls in hospital following explosion
Two teenage girls are in hospital after a gas cylinder exploded in a house in east Belfast.
The derelict house on Tildarg Street, off the Woodstock Road collapsed following the explosion at 3pm on Sunday afternoon.
Three girls and two boys had been in the house at the time, and police have revealed that one of them had been handling a gas cylinder.
Forty firefighters and a specialist rescue team were sent to the scene and more than 150 residents were forced to leave their homes, while the Woodstock Road was cordoned off.
The two girls remain seriously ill in hospital while the other youths’ injuries were not serious.
(JM/SP)
The derelict house on Tildarg Street, off the Woodstock Road collapsed following the explosion at 3pm on Sunday afternoon.
Three girls and two boys had been in the house at the time, and police have revealed that one of them had been handling a gas cylinder.
Forty firefighters and a specialist rescue team were sent to the scene and more than 150 residents were forced to leave their homes, while the Woodstock Road was cordoned off.
The two girls remain seriously ill in hospital while the other youths’ injuries were not serious.
(JM/SP)
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