Residents complained of gas smell before Wirral explosion
by Helen Pidd North of England editor and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#2H4AR)
Engineers could find no evidence of leak before blast that destroyed dance school and left two people seriously injured
Residents near a dance school destroyed by an explosion on Saturday night complained the night before that they could smell gas, the National Grid has said.
Engineers investigated but there was no evidence of a leak. Two people were seriously injured and 31 others went to hospital after a building collapsed following a suspected gas explosion in Port Sunlight on the Wirral in Merseyside.
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