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50 injured in boiler blast

By Sridhar Krishnaswami

Washington April 25. Atleast 50 persons were injured, three of them critically, in a powerful explosion in a 10-storey commercial complex in Manhattan, New York today. It is said plumbers were working on a boiler in the building when the blast took place. Several of the injured were hit by flying glass. A spokesman for the Office of Emergency Management said the building houses commercial tenants. Students at a nearby techinical school said they heard a loud explosion.

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