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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Parnaby

Neighbours tell of sickening smell of gas in days before fatal explosion

PA Wire

Residents of a road where an explosion killed a child have described sensing a “time bomb” in the days beforehand due to the headache-inducing stench of gas in their homes.

A girl, believed to be aged four, has died and three others were injured after a terrace house collapsed following the blast on Galpin’s Road in Thornton Heath, south London, just after 7am on Monday.

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