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Two people seriously burned after explosion at Oak Flats

Glen Humphries
Updated January 19 2020 - 3:54pm, first published January 17 2020 - 7:38pm
It is understood the man was walking towards a shipping container at the rear of the residential property when he was blown back by the explosion - believed to be caused by a gas bottle. Picture: Anna Warr.
It is understood the man was walking towards a shipping container at the rear of the residential property when he was blown back by the explosion - believed to be caused by a gas bottle. Picture: Anna Warr.

Two people were seriously burned on Friday night, in an explosion at Oak Flats that was heard a suburb away - in Albion Park.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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