Blast in French flats kills 11

Monday 06 December 1999 00:02 GMT

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Blast in French flats kills 11

AN EXPLOSION in a four-storey block of French flats killed 11 people, including a mother and her two young daughters, in Dijon, 150 miles south- east of Paris, yesterday. Rescuers used their bare hands and trained dogs to search for survivors in the debris, which was just 13-feet high. A gas leak is suspected of causing the blast.

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