Police cars blocked the streets near the explosion and a thick acrid smoked hung over a shopping district near downtown Durham.
A gas explosion that partially collapsed a North Carolina building and set it ablaze Wednesday morning killed one person and injured 15 others, police said.
Durham Police Department public affairs manager Wil Glenn said a contractor digging under a sidewalk hit a 2-inch gas line, triggering the explosion. One person was killed and 15 were taken to area hospitals, Glenn said at a news conference. A responding firefighter was seriously injured, he said. Duke University employee Mary Williams said she heard the explosion and felt shaking at her building a third of a mile away.
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