RSOE EDIS - Situation Update No. 1 : Belgium - Explosion

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Situation Update No. 1 Posted:2010-01-27, 08:47:19 [UTC] Ref.no.: EX-20100127-24707-BEL Situation Update No. 1 On 2010-01-27 at 20:00:32 [UTC] Event: Explosion Location: Belgium Province de Liege Liege Number of Deads: 1 person(s) Number of Injured: 23 person(s) Number of Evacuated: 50 person(s) Situation: A suspected gas leak blew up an apartment building in the Belgian city of Liege, killing one person and possibly trapping other residents under rubble, officials said today. A girl aged between 10 and 12 was rescued from the remains of the destroyed building hours after the early morning explosion and emergency workers later found a body in the ruins. "There are still three people missing although we cannot be certain that they were in the building," a police spokeswoman said. The explosion occurred shortly before 2am (1am Irish time), damaging a number of buildings and shattering windows in a street in the centre of the eastern Belgian city. The front of one five-storey building collapsed into the street. Altogether 23 people were injured, two of them seriously, police and local officials said. 1Officials said the explosion appeared to have been caused by a gas leak. Please DO NOT reply to this message: replies may be treated as errors and result in your subscription being deleted. If you have trouble or other queries, send email to havaria@rsoe.hu RSOE EDIS is operated by the National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), Budapest, Hungary. Because of the complexity of this system and its dependence on other systems, we cannot be responsible for delays or failures in forwarding or transmission. You're receiving this AlertMail because you subscribed for the service. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Contact: havaria@rsoe.hu