Rescuers on Monday recovered one body and were searching for another person after a suspected gas explosion tore through a house in Newark, Nottinghamshire, police said.
A man, a woman and two children were taken to hospital after suffering injuries in the blast which took place in Wright Street at around 5.10pm.
Around 100 people were moved from their homes after the explosion, which required the attention of at least five fire service appliances, according to police.
Witness Cormac Fleming explained: “We were walking our dog and got within eight feet of the house, when it exploded right in front of us.”
“The sheer force of the blast knocked my son off his bike. I rang 999 straight away.
“One house was completely destroyed and the house next to it was half-blown up.
“I then noticed a curtain moving in the house next door. I, and another man, smashed the window and next thing I was being handed a newborn baby,” he told the BBC.
Man killed in Newark house blast
