Google street view of the destroyed house in Leicester before the explosion GoogleA woman was critically injured and two men were also hurt when a house was destroyed by what is thought to have been a gas explosion yesterday. One of the men was in a stable condition and the other was discharged from hospital. Six other houses were damaged in the blast at 7.30am. Sarah Carr, who lives near the scene in Birstall, three miles from Leicester, said: “I thought it was a car crash, the whole house shook. It sounded like it was outside my house.”Tony Timson, who lives 100 yards away, said that the explosion shifted tiles on his roof: “I saw black smoke coming up from about 100 yards away.

Source: The Times December 12, 2017 00:00 UTC