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Strong explosion rocks building in Central Madrid

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MADRID: At least three people died and eleven were injured on Wednesday afternoon when a building in central Madrid was blown apart by an explosion, with four of the wounded requiring hospitalisation.

All available evidence pointed to the blast in Calle Toledo, a street leading out from the city centre, being caused by a gas leak, Madrid’s Emergency Services said, although the factors which triggered the leak were yet to be determined.

“It was completely nerve-wracking … I heard and felt the explosion but didn’t know where it came from,” said local Isabel Romero, whose eight-year-old son is a student at a school next to the building where the explosion occurred.