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At least two people died and 56 were injured after two blasts at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station in Romania.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The injured included 39 firefighters who went to the scene following the first explosion near the capital Bucharest on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shortly after, a second blast sent a mushroom cloud billowing into the sky, rocking the forecourt in Crevedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Several people are in critical condition with severe burns, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The two people who died were a couple, Raed Arafat, the head of Romania’s emergency department, told reporters on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They sent four people who were injured, including two firefighters, to hospitals abroad and said others would follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two police officers and two gendarmes are among the injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities do not yet know what caused the blast. Mr Arafat said the station was no longer in use and “did not have a permit to function”, according to quotes reported by the Agence France-Presse news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People within a 700-metre (almost half a mile) radius were initially evacuated from the area, with Mr Arafat warning there was a risk of another explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But by mid-morning, the fires had been contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis described the explosions as a “tragedy” and said he was “profoundly saddened” by what had happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: At least two people died and 56 were injured after two blasts at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) station in Romania. The injured included 39 firefighters who went to the scene following the first explosion near the capital Bucharest on Saturday evening. Shortly after, a second blast sent a mushroom cloud billowing into the sky, rocking the forecourt in Crevedia. Several people are in critical condition with severe burns, authorities said. The two people who died were a couple, Raed Arafat, the head of Romania’s emergency department, told reporters on Sunday. They sent four people who were injured,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34412,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34410\/revisions\/34412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}