Police have named seven of the nine people feared to have died in an explosion in Jersey.

The huge blast in St Helier killed nine people in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Five of those have been found dead while four others are still unaccounted for.

Peter Bowler (Picture: States of Jersey Police)

Billy Marsden (Picture: States of Jersey Police)

Romeu and Louise de Almeida  (Picture: States of Jersey Police)

 Derek and Sylvia Ellis  (Picture: State of Jersey Police)

 Raymond ‘Raymie’ Brown (Picture: States of Jersey Police)

Peter Bowler, 72, Raymond ‘Raymie’ Brown ,71, Romeu and Louise de Almeida, 67 and 64, Derek and Sylvia Ellis, 61 and 73, and Billy Marsden, 62, were among the residents at the Haut du Mont flats on Pier Road on St Helier, which were destroyed in an explosion just before 4am on 10 December.

The identities of two others have been withheld from the media at their families’ request.

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They were killed in the explosion on Satruday.