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London explosion in house kills child

Web Desk
August 8, 2022

London explosion in house kills child

A child has been killed in a house explosion in Croydon, south London.
Six fire engines and 40 firefighters were dispatched to the scene shortly after 7 a.m.
Residents claim they noticed a strong gas odour two weeks ago, and have felt dizzy and sick recently.

A child was killed in a house explosion in Croydon, south London.

Four more people were rescued from the property, which collapsed after the blast.

“This morning, alongside colleagues from London Fire, we attended an incident in #ThorntonHeath,” the London Ambulance Service tweeted. We treated four people. One person was released, while three others were taken to the hospital.

“Sadly, a child was also pronounced dead at the scene. All LAS crews have now been stood down.”

On Monday, shortly after 7 a.m., six fire engines and approximately 40 firefighters were dispatched to the blaze in Galpin’s Road, Thornton Heath.

Residents Kutoya Kukanda, 50, and Delroy Simms, 62, said they assisted in the rescue of three children from the rubble.

At the scene, Mr Kukanda told Sky News correspondent Madeline Ratcliffe that he was sleeping when he heard what sounded like a “bomb.”

When he opened his window and saw a cloud of “smoke” and “people screaming,” he ran outside in his shorts and saw the collapsed house.

“The people inside the house were screaming,” he said, adding that “children were screaming and crying” and a woman was “shaking”.

Forty properties were evacuated, and dozens of residents gathered in their pyjamas outside a 50-metre police cordon.

Some claimed to have noticed a strong gas odour two weeks ago, while others claimed to have felt dizzy and sick over the last two days.

According to one local resident, they heard a loud boom from several streets away, which felt like “a storm” passing through the house and blowing open doors.

Others claimed that the noise woke them up. After the explosion, the windows and doors of one man’s son’s room shook, according to a neighbour.

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