Birmingham explosion: Heroic neighbours free trapped man after blast so strong it ‘blew clothes off’
The Independent says HEROIC residents have described how they clambered past flaming debris, through dust and rubble shortly after a suspected gas explosion to pull an injured man alive from the ruins of a house.
The man is in a life-threatening condition following the blast in Kingstanding in north Birmingham.
One man, who declined to give his name, told the PA news agency: “Everyone was watching, the house was on fire, nobody was going in, so we could see a way in – so we went in the house, me and about a dozen others.
“There was a guy in the back (of the house), we could hear the guy screaming, but he was trapped up against the fridge in the kitchen.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/birmingham-explosion-house-trapped-latest-b2110003.html
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