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Death toll could have been ‘twice as high’ if blast was five minutes earlier

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The death toll from the Cresslough explosion could have been twice as high if the blast had happened five minutes earlier, a doctor has said.

Village GP Dr Paul Stewart said a group of school children had been sitting on a wall of the service station and convenience store just before it was buried by falling rubble.

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