4 Children, Elderly Woman Injured in Gas Bottle Explosion in Bulgaria

Society | November 22, 2007, Thursday // 00:00

A total of four under-age children and a 52-year-old woman are in critical condition after a gas bottle exploded in their house in Bulgaria's town of Devniya late on Wednesday.

Three of the kids suffered between 50 and 90 % burns and are now in thermal shock, doctors said.

The elderly victim has 70% burns and is given artificial respiration as she inhaled a lot of hot gasses at the accident.

The life of the fourth child involved, who is at the age of 10, is already out of danger.

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