One missing and at least 12 injured in an explosion that occurred in a block of flats

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2023-08-02 01:44:49

Updated Wednesday, August 2, 2023 – 01:44

Everything indicates that it was a gas explosion, which occurred on the ground floor of the building.

Firefighters, in the building set on fire after the explosion. Nacho GallegoEFE

The explosion of a four-story building in the Goya street in Valladolid has left 12 injured, two of them serious, And a person missing, a neighbor of the block of flats who is wanted while the firefighters complete the tasks of extinction of the generated fire and stabilize the property.

The event occurred at number 32 Calle Goya at 10:49 p.m., sources from the Firefighters of Valladolid, who have also indicated that the explosion would have occurred in a room on the ground floor of the building and that everything indicates that it was a gas explosion.

“The flames have reached the top,” explained the firefighters, who are still working in the building to try to extinguish the fire that started after the explosion.

For its part, the Sacyl Health Emergency Service has confirmed the transfer of 10 affected people in four basic life support ambulances to the hospitals Río Hortega and Clínico of the Valladolid capital.

To them is added one more person who has been treated by the emergency services at the scene of the event, according to EFE sources from the National Police, who have also indicated that “in principle it seems that the injured are not of great consideration”. .

Sacyl Emergencies has mobilized three ambulances for advanced life support and five for basic life support.

Sanitary workers, with the wounded. Nacho GallegoEFE

Together with both emergency services, members of the Local Police, National Police and Civil Protection, the latter activated by the 112 Emergency Coordination Center.

Civil Protection has mobilized a Support and Emergency Unit (UALE) with 3 vehicles, tents, shelter material, lighting, blankets and a generator, explained the Emergency Service of Castilla y León 112 through Twitter.

Local Police and Civil Protection have requested, through their accounts on the social network, that citizens not go to the scene “to facilitate the movement of emergency vehicles.”

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