Explosion in the City Centre?

[bocadillo]

Hinckley Road area.

 

[bocadillo]

BBC reporting:


Police have declared a "major incident" after reports of an explosion in the Hinckley Road area of Leicester.

Officers have said they are conducting a search and rescue operation at the scene.

They have closed Carlisle Street and part of Hinckley Road and are asking people to avoid the area.

A spokeswoman for Leicestershire Police said all the emergency services were in attendance, including six fire engines.

 

[Jeff]

Sounds like a gas explosion, flat above a shop.

Ignore some of the pictures on Twitter that are clearly fake. People are twats.

 

[bocadillo]

reports of an explosion in the Hinckley Road

They have closed Carlisle Street

Not quite the city centre then. I hope jefff is OK

 

[bocadillo]

From BBC News

 

[bocadillo]

From Leicester Mercury

****!!!

 

[OldGit]

Couple of doors from where one of my sons lived till recently. Waiting for news from his friends - presumably been evacuated

 

[pork pie fox]

Four people have died in an explosion at a shop in Leicester, police have confirmed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43195160

 

[OldGit]

Couple of doors from where one of my sons lived till recently. Waiting for news from his friends - presumably been evacuated

safe but still locked out