DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A gas explosion that partially collapsed a North Carolina building and set it ablaze Wednesday morning killed one person and injured more than a dozen others, police said.
Police cars blocked the streets near the explosion. A thick acrid smoked hung over a shopping district near downtown Durham and helicopters circled overhead.
Television station video of the scene showed flames jumping from windows along with heavy smoke and piles of rubble. Students from a nearby school, the Durham School of the Arts, were evacuated and classes dismissed for the day "I was in the kitchen. I heard this loud boom and the building shook. When I looked out, I saw the smoke billowing up. I was scared for whoever was in the vicinity because it did not look very good."
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