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21 June 2024
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Explosion and fire injure 13 at Romanian home-improvement store
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An explosion and a fire injured 13 people at a home-improvement chain store in northeastern Romania on Friday, 7 June 2024, emergency services said. The blast rang out then the flames spread at the Dedeman outlet on the outskirts of the town of Botosani, the government emergency response agency said. Emergency teams dispatched a mobile intensive care unit to the scene.
Four of the injured are in serious condition and two are intubated, while 10 were conscious but suffered “various traumas and burns” and are receiving medical attention.
Emergency helicopters were alerted and two ambulances and two fire trucks were sent to the scene to extinguish a fire, and search and rescue mission was soon underway inside the store.
Botoșani's mayor Cosmin Andrei told Romanian channel Antena 3 that the cause of the explosion may have come from the gas supply to the store.
More than 100 people managed to get out after the explosion, authorities said. Fire crews put out the blaze and did not find any other casualties in the building.
"I was told there was a malfunction at the gas network inside the store," Botosani mayor Cosmin Andrei told Antena3 television. Authorities said they were still investigating the cause of the blast.
Dozens of people were injured in August in consecutive explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas station in the Romanian town of Crevedia near Bucharest.
Source: Reuters, Euro News
Four of the injured are in serious condition and two are intubated, while 10 were conscious but suffered “various traumas and burns” and are receiving medical attention.
Emergency helicopters were alerted and two ambulances and two fire trucks were sent to the scene to extinguish a fire, and search and rescue mission was soon underway inside the store.
Botoșani's mayor Cosmin Andrei told Romanian channel Antena 3 that the cause of the explosion may have come from the gas supply to the store.
More than 100 people managed to get out after the explosion, authorities said. Fire crews put out the blaze and did not find any other casualties in the building.
"I was told there was a malfunction at the gas network inside the store," Botosani mayor Cosmin Andrei told Antena3 television. Authorities said they were still investigating the cause of the blast.
Dozens of people were injured in August in consecutive explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas station in the Romanian town of Crevedia near Bucharest.
Source: Reuters, Euro News
