ANALYSIS: A devastating gas blast in a Christchurch suburban street. ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF Not much is left of 9 Marble Court, Northwood after Friday's gas explosion. ALDEN WILLIAMS/STUFF A mangled mess is all that is left of 9 Marble Court, Northwood after a gas explosion on Friday. As recently as May, a gas explosion in a suburban house in southern Indiana killed one person and injured two others. Another example is Jimmy Brown, an English pensioner who in 2007 survived a gas explosion in his cottage, despite it being reduced to rubble.

Source: Stuff July 19, 2019 05:03 UTC