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Five killed in Polish gas explosion
28 Feb 2007 06:55:45 GMT
 Source: Reuters
WARSAW, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Five people, including two children, were killed in a gas explosion at an apartment in Poland's southern city of Krakow on Wednesday, police said.

"Five people from one family were killed by a gas explosion on Wednesday morning," Andrzej Siekanka, a police spokesman from Krakow told local news agency PAP.

PAP said that all members of the family died. The children were 9 and 11-years-old.


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