{"id":1552,"date":"2024-10-17T14:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T11:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/7-year-old-boy-dies-6-injured-in-new-castle-house-explosion\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T14:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T11:28:54","slug":"7-year-old-boy-dies-6-injured-in-new-castle-house-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/7-year-old-boy-dies-6-injured-in-new-castle-house-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"7-year-old boy dies, 6 injured in New Castle house explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Emergency crews were called to Violet Close in Benwell, Newcastle, at about 00:45 BST, BBC reported.<\/p>\n

Police, who have now enforced a no-fly zone in the area, said the boy’s death was “truly devastating”.<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses described a “very loud bang” and a “bright flash”, with some residents then told to leave their homes and go to a rest center run by Red Cross volunteers.<\/p>\n

Three houses along the terrace were completely destroyed and several cars badly damaged.<\/p>\n

The area was littered with piles of debris and a heavy smell of smoke lingers.<\/p>\n

Firefighters and search dogs have been combing the wreckage and Northern Gas Networks said its engineers had been at the scene.<\/p>\n

An investigation is under way into how the explosion happened.<\/p>\n

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Emergency crews were called to Violet Close in Benwell, Newcastle, at about 00:45 BST, BBC reported. Police, who have now enforced a no-fly zone in the area, said the boy’s death was “truly devastating”. Eyewitnesses described a “very loud bang” and a “bright flash”, with some residents then told to leave their homes and go …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}