Number of victims of Czech gas-destroyed house rises to five

Dva lidé zahynuli 17. února při výbuchu plynu v panelovém domě ve Frenštátě pod Radhoštěm. Exploze domem otřásla časně ráno před 04:00 a následně vypukl požár. Celkem 11 lidí bylo zraněno a několik obyvatel se pohřešuje. Silně poškozený dům, v němž je šest bytů, hasiči stále dohašují. Dvě stěny domu strhli, jedna z nich při pádu lehce poškodila vedlejší dům.

published: 18.02.2013, 08:33 | updated: 18.02.2013 10:02:45

Frenstat pod Radhostem - Firefighters found four bodies, three of children one of which was probably of a pre-school age, in the ruins of a Czech prefab house damaged by a gas explosion during the night, which raised the number of victims to five, Petr Kudela has told CTK.

Kudela, fighters´ spokesman, said one adult is probably still missing.

The explosion happened at 04:00 on Sunday. It destroyed the whole three-storey house with six flats in the centre of the town.

Eleven people, including a voluntary firefighter and three children, were injured in the explosion.

One woman who suffered burns to 90 percent of the body and a man with burns on more than 50 percent of the body are in a critical condition, Tomas Oborny, spokesman for the Teaching Hospital in Ostrava, north Moravia, said.

He added that the other injured persons´ lives are not threatened.

The police are investigating the cause of the accident. They do not rule out that it may have been a premeditated act.

Author: ČTK
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