Tuesday 21 January, 2020
Terence Maguire caused the explosion in an attempt to take his own life.
The landslide buried 30 residential and industrial buildings.
She warned festival-goers to be careful with gas stoves.
The singer is currently camping out ahead of the music festival this week.
Fifteen people were injured in the blast.
500 guests have been evacuated.
It’s very dangerous warns Bord Gáis Networks.
Everyone’s talking about Labour Party leadership, marathons and job worries in Waterford.
A man was seriously injured in the explosion on Sullivan Street in Dublin 7.
The injured were brought to hospital and the uninjured were brought to nearby jails.
One person is said to have sustained life-threatening injuries.
The gas explosion happened at her home in Ringsend in Dublin last night.
The explosion took place at a launderette, with emergency services at the scene for much of the day
The explosion happened at around 11am this morning killing one child while an adult has been hospitalised with 80 per cent burns.
The woman had been trapped for 31 hours after the building collapsed in a gas explosion.
US authorities say that Josh Powell, whose wife has been missing for two years, intentionally set his home on fire during his children’s visit.
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A woman and child were also involved and are being treated for shock. Gardaí are investigating.
A Garda forensic team are due at the scene of yesterday’s suspected gas explosion, where fires continue to smoulder.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
As the capital city sees hours of constant snowfall, Café Kylemore is hit by a gas blast.
A suspected gas blast that injured 15 people has been traced to a house which had just had a new kitchen installed.
Emergency services continue to search rubble for survivors.
A WOMAN HAS BEEN rescued from the scene of a gas explosion which occurred around 7am today in Salford, Greater Manchester. The BBC reports that one house has been completely destroyed and four others badly damaged. Fire services say other people may still be trapped in the rubble. One person said he heard the blast six miles away.
Rescue efforts end as last of the 37 bodies are removed from the scene of Saturday’s accident.
Rescuers continue to search for missing men trapped underground.
Gas explosion leaves 20 dead and rescuers searching for trapped miners.
THE MOTHER OF THREE children found dead at a flat in Edinburgh has been charged with their murder, the Independent reports.
The bodies of Gianluca, 8, Augustino, 8, and Cecilia Riggi, 5, were found after reports of an explosion at their home. Police later said they found no evidence of an explosion or gas leak.
The children’s mother, Theresa Riggi, fell two stories from the building and was found by emergency services on the street outside. She remains in stable condition in hospital.
Riggi had been involved in a legal battle with the children’s father for their custody. Her husband had reported Riggi and his children missing on 11 July after she left their home and he was unable to contact her.
Riggi and the children were finally traced to the Edinburgh apartment on July 21.
THE MOTHER OF three young children who died in an apparent gas explosion at an Edinburgh flat yesterday is to be questioned by police.
The children have been named as eight-year-old twins, Gianluca and Augustino Riggi, and their sister Cecilia, who was three.
Their mother, Theresa – who had been involved in a legal battle with the children’s father over the question of their custody – was injured in the incident, and is recovering in hospital, where she is expected to begin helping police piece together what happened.
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Post-mortem examinations will be used by police to determine whether to launch a murder investigation. Reports today suggested the three children were already dead when a small fire broke out in the building.
Police confirmed there was no evidence of a gas leak in the flat.
A spokesman for the Lothian and Borders force said:
The deaths are suspicious and a criminal and forensic investigation is under way. The results of the post-mortems are awaited to determine the cause of deaths.
The children’s father has been interviewed by police but is said not to be a suspect.
One neighbour told the Guardian he saw a woman plunge off the balcony. The 21-year-old, who did not want to be named, said he was in his living room, next door to the flat, when he heard screaming.
It was really bad big screaming – the sort of screaming you would only do if a death or something very, very bad had happened.
He smelt gas, and asked a handyman who was doing some work for him to investigate what happened.
When the handyman came back out he was crying. I don’t know what he saw – I don’t want to know. I came back out and she was standing on the third-floor balcony. She was holding her arms, like she was already injured. She was crying and screaming. There were about five of us standing saying to [her] ‘don’t do it, don’t jump’.
Then she jumped off. My neighbour tried to catch her and she kind of landed on his arms. I think he’s a bit bruised but okay. She was lying on the floor and I left the scene, it was just too much. I don’t think she was jumping to save herself.
THREE PRIMARY school children in Edinburgh, Scotland, have died in a suspected gas explosion. Two boys and a girl were killed in the Slateford Road area of Edinburgh, just before 3pm. A woman was also injured in the incident and is being treated in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
TWO PEOPLE HAVE been killed in a gas explosion in LA. Both were workers at a welding business, which was levelled by the explosion. One person was thrown from the building, and the other accidentally made contact with a fallen power line. A third person is missing.
CONTROVERSY HAS BUILT over the exclusion of Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald’s exclusion from two televised leaders’ debates ahead of this year’s general election.
Yesterday it emerged that Sinn Féin is seeking legal advice over McDonald’s exclusion from RTÉ’s leaders’ debate on 4 February, while the party also wrote to Virgin Media to object to a head-to-head debate between the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael leaders this week.
Virgin Media Television argued that coverage is in accordance with BAI guidelines, and was allocated on the basis of party performance in the 2016 general election and the local elections in 2019.
RTÉ also told the Irish Times that the decision was made to host a head-to-head debate between Leo Varadkar and Micheál Martin on the basis of the 2016 election and other elections since, as well as “other factors”.
The broadcaster also said other party leaders would face off during a debate on Claire Byrne Live on 27 January.
However, Sinn Féin’s performance in two opinion polls – the most recent of which put the party just two points behind Fine Gael – has led to calls for McDonald to be included.
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