Four killed in explosion

Paris - Four people were killed and nine injured, eight of them seriously, when an underground neighbourhood heating pipe exploded…

Paris - Four people were killed and nine injured, eight of them seriously, when an underground neighbourhood heating pipe exploded on a Paris worksite yesterday, police said.

Police said workers had dug 25 metres below the surface to reach the pipe and all those killed or injured were employed on the site. The cause of the blast near the Porte de Clignancourt on the northern edge of Paris was not immediately known.

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