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The explosion occurred on Monday afternoon in a single-family home in the Moorfleet district of Hamburg. According to the police and fire department, it was an accident involving gas bottles.
A man was critically injured in an explosion at a single-family home in the Moorfleet district of Hamburg. According to the fire department, an accident involving gas bottles occurred on Monday afternoon, the police said. An adjacent building to a single-family home was then fully engulfed in flames.
The 59-year-old resident was able to escape independently. He is being treated in hospital with life-threatening injuries. The building is no longer habitable. The fire department's extinguishing work lasted until the evening.
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