Gas blast destroys house
Reporter: by RICHARD HOOTON
Date published: 23 December 2008
The scene Byland Avenue, Abbeyhills after the gas blast
THIS was the scene minutes after a suspected gas explosion ripped through a semi-detached house in Byland Avenue, Roundthorn this afternoon,
One man was miraculously pulled from the rubble of his home alive by a neighbour after the blast at around 1pm.
For full story and more dramatic pictures see tomorrow’s Evening Chronicle.
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