The breakage of a gas pipe caused a large explosion in the town of Villa Ballester, in the Buenos Aires district of San Martín. At least two people were injured.
The episode occurred in Aguer and Reconquista, this Thursday after noon, when a crew was working on repairs on a sidewalk In the middle of that task they would have damaged a pipe, which generated the explosion that was felt for several blocks around.
The scenes of fire and the desperation of the neighbors were portrayed in videos that social media users uploaded to their accounts.
The flames, about 3 meters high, affect a building on the block. There are two people injured, one of them a woman who was taken to the Thompson hospital in San Martín.
“A horror movie was lived, I was in the grocery store and all the glass was smashed. It was a disaster,” said one of the neighbors affected by the explosion, in TN.
Gas leak and explosion in San Martín.
Less than 24 hours ago, the Municipal Delegation of Villa Ballester had shown on its social networks the patching works being carried out on Aguar Street, in an area of seven blocks.
“Patching works are being carried out on Prof. Aguer, along 700 meters between Lafayette and Reconquista. Due to this, the area is affected with traffic cuts. The same will continue on Marengo and Artigas streets, within the framework of the Patching and Repaving Plan for the main streets of the city,” indicated municipal sources.
Neighbors said the crew broke a main pipe. In addition, they complained about not having answers of the Municipality of San Martín due to the material losses of the homes.
“This is crazy, everything is going to explode. We lost everything and no one gives us answers,” exclaimed a man who lives meters from where the explosion occurred.
In addition, neighbors report that the company workers who caused the main pipe to break left the scene.
Firefighters from San Martín continue to work at the scene and Buenos Aires Police and SAME mobile phones arrived to assist in the event that there is a more affected neighbor.
“Windows flew out. We lost everything. We are four departments that lost everything. We are four departments. We don’t know anything about our animals, a dog disappeared,” said Aidé, another local, in conversation with C5N.
