[guide.chat] manchester death blast

From: vanessa <qwerty1234567a@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "GUIDE CHAT" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:57:09 +0100
Police: Oldham Blast Death Is Suspicious
Greater Manchester Police issue an update after a suspected gas explosion 
killed a child and left a man critically ill.10:35pm UK, Tuesday 26 June 2012

Detectives investigating a massive explosion that killed a toddler in Oldham 
are treating the death as suspicious.

The boy, named locally as Jamie Heaton and thought to be two years old, died 
after a suspected gas blast ripped through three terraced houses in the Shaw 
area.

A man who is not related to the toddler - named by locals as Anthony Partington 
- is in a critical condition with severe burns.

Rescue workers are still desperately trying to reach a man who is trapped under 
rubble, and police say another resident is missing.

The blast happened at around 11.15 am destroying one house. Witnesses say two 
others are wrecked, and another has been seriously damaged.

North West Ambulance Service received a call at 11.31am
Dean Nankivell, station manager at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, 
said: "The scene down there is catastrophic. Its just a great big pile of 
bricks.

"Whatever has caused this has gone with some force. This is looking like a gas 
explosion.

"Everybody has been accounted for, we are treating it as a search and rescue 
but leading on to the next phase."

A specialist urban rescue team and a sniffer dog are helping with the search.

Rescuers scour the rubble in a desperate search for the trapped man
National Grid said it had received a report of a smell of gas this morning. The 
police said that was "one element" currently being investigated.

Witnesses say the explosion was so loud and powerful that it shook other houses 
on the street.

Waqar Hussain, whose family rent out one of the destroyed properties, lives a 
few doors away. He said: "I had walked past just a few minutes earlier and gone 
into my house.

"The explosion was massive. I thought a bomb had gone off. The whole house 
shook. My mother was crying and when I went out onto the street I couldn't take 
it in. It was like some weird dream. I just stood looking at the rubble and 
mess not knowing what to do when the police arrived and moved me away."

Around 100 homes have been evacuated
Adam Pollard, 21, was at his mother's house just 500 yards away when he heard 
the explosion.

"It was the biggest bang I have ever heard, all the windows shook, I could see 
the smoke and came running up towards my flat," he said.

"I got to the street and the three houses that had been there were just rubble, 
basically. I was worried if someone was trapped. I went running on to the 
rubble, shouting to see if anyone was injured. I couldn't see anyone and there 
was no fire, just smoke in the air. There was a weird smell, not of gas, like a 
burning smell."


Map showing the Greater Manchester area
Emergency services say they do not know when people will be allowed back into 
their homes.

Some 80 people have sought refuge at the makeshift help centre at a local 
school, and Oldham Council is offering temporary accomodation to those who need 
it.

Police have closed several roads and a cordon has been set up around the area.


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