Gas blast kills three in Polish city
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
06.07.2019 16:00
Three people, including two children, were reported dead and four others injured after an apparent gas blast ripped through a residential building in the southern Polish city of Bytom on Saturday.
Firefighters work on the site of the blast, on Katowicka Street in downtown Bytom, southern Poland, on Saturday. Photo: PAP/Hanna Bardo
The three fatalities were a 39-year-old woman and her five- and seven-year-old daughters, public broadcaster TVP Info reported.
The explosion occurred in a ground-floor apartment shortly after 1 p.m. local time, firefighters said.
Seventeen fire crews were deployed after flames engulfed the building, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
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Source: TVP Info, IAR