Severed Gas Main Sets Off Blast in N.Y.; One Killed
United Press International
SMITHTOWN, N.Y. —
A backhoe operator accidentally cut into a gas main at a construction site Saturday, setting off an explosion that leveled a building, killed a worker and injured 11 other people, police said.
The blast demolished the Penn Furniture Building, which had been undergoing renovations, and shattered windows of buildings within a quarter of a mile of the site on western Long Island, Suffolk County police said.
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