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Two hospitalized after gas bottle explosion

Aug 15, 2013 News

 

Three persons including two teenagers suffered injuries when a gas cylinder mysteriously exploded yesterday at a dealer in Freeman Street, La penitence.
The injured persons were identified as Shamar Barrow, 17; Tameka Maxwell, 18 who are both patients at the Burn Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Five year-old Kevon Chance was injured during the explosion but was treated and sent away for minor burns.
According to reports around 3:00 pm, three persons who are all related were at the dealer located at lot 55 Freeman Street, East La penitence when one of the bottles at the bottom shelf of a metal rack exploded injuring them in the process.
An eyewitness told this publication that at the time of the explosion, there was nothing nearby that could have ignited the explosion. “We didn’t had anybody with no lighter or a cigarette around here, is just suh we hear a ‘boom!’ and people start running,” the man explained.
After persons scattered for cover, the man said that the two injured teens were then immediately taken to the nearby health centre before they were transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Barrow suffered burns to his right arm while his cousin Maxwell suffered burns to her face and left arm.

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