4 bodies found, 4 people missing in gas blast in Poland

5/12/2019 14:52

        Rescuers found four bodies in the debris of a house destroyed by a gas explosion in southern Poland and were searching in sub-freezing weather early Thursday for four people still missing.
        
        Silesia provincial Gov. Jaroslaw Wieczorek said the bodies of four people, including a child, were found and rescuers continued to comb by hand through the debris in search of those missing. The temperature is sub-freezing and there is some snow in the southern mountain resort of Szczyrk where the explosion occurred.
        
        Earlier firefighters said that nine members of two families lived in the three-story house. One person was not at home at the time of the explosion Wednesday evening.
        
        The head of regional firefighters said about a half of the debris had been checked and the action now focused on cutting through the collapsed ceiling structures.