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| Man killed in welding van blast | Man killed in welding van blast |
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| A man is thought to have died when a van carrying welding equipment exploded in a County Durham market town. | A man is thought to have died when a van carrying welding equipment exploded in a County Durham market town. |
| Windows in shops and homes were left shattered and wreckage was strewn across the town centre of Wolsingham, near Bishop Auckland, in County Durham. | |
| Houses near the scene were evacuated after the blast, which happened at 0700 BST on Saturday. | |
| The explosion happened after the driver stopped the van, which was carrying oxy-acetylene cylinders, near shops. | |
| BBC Radio Cleveland's Matthew Barraclough, who is at the scene, said: "There was a very large explosion indeed. It woke up pretty much everyone in the town at the same time. | BBC Radio Cleveland's Matthew Barraclough, who is at the scene, said: "There was a very large explosion indeed. It woke up pretty much everyone in the town at the same time. |
| "People who live in the market square and the homes surrounding that have been evacuated. One woman I spoke to said she was not going to be allowed back into her house for 24 hours. | "People who live in the market square and the homes surrounding that have been evacuated. One woman I spoke to said she was not going to be allowed back into her house for 24 hours. |
| "We don't know if any buildings have been damaged structurally but that's one of the factors the emergency services are taking into consideration." | "We don't know if any buildings have been damaged structurally but that's one of the factors the emergency services are taking into consideration." |
| No-one else is thought to have been hurt in the explosion, on the A689. | No-one else is thought to have been hurt in the explosion, on the A689. |
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