“It is with sadness that I confirm that our rescue operation has now become a salvage operation,” said local police chief Robin Smith on Sunday.
Yesterday morning at 4 am local time, an explosion occurred in a three-storey apartment building in Saint-Hellier on the island of Jersey, 22 kilometers off the French coast of Normandy. The explosion was probably caused by a gas leak. CCTV footage showed a fireball and a lot of smoke as the building collapsed. Residents are said to have already called the fire brigade on Friday evening because they smelled a gas smell. The explosion was reportedly heard all over the island.
Three bodies have already been found, but the number of victims would increase, the emergency services expect.” The salvage work is expected to take weeks, it was said today. An investigation is underway into the cause of the explosion, to which the fire brigade and gas supplier Island Energy promised to cooperate fully.
Look. Surveillance camera filmed the gas explosion on Channel Island Jersey