A woman was injured after the explosion and subsequent fire which caused the breakage of a gas master pipe by operators of a private company in the Buenos Aires town of San Martín.
A team of firefighters is working at the scene to put out the flames caused by the strong detonation that occurred this afternoon.
According to witnesses of the event, outsourced Municipal personnel worked on repairing a pothole for several days, when due to carelessness, they broke the main pipe and generated the loss.
“The sidewalk explodedit was a horror movie what was experienced,” neighbors told the TN television channel after the shocking event. “I had to catch a neighbor who had to jump off the first floor. My mother almost died and we lost our pets,” added Julián, a witness.
“We heard a noise and when we came out we saw how the entire entrance to the house exploded“, they narrated and added that they had previous complaints and complaints: “They broke up the entire street without any type of precaution. “We knew something like this could happen.”
“They haven’t turned off the gas yet. We don’t know what to do because everything is going to explode. When we called 911 they assured us that they were not informed about this work,” they stated.
