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Gas Explosion

Three children die in suspected gas blast

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.