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Two people have been taken to hospital after a gas explosion when welding was taking place in a North Shore building.
Alarmed residents posted to social media after hearing the explosion and sirens in Belmont, near Takapuna, about noon.
“Heard a very loud explosion”, a person in Belmont wrote
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Source: New Zealand Herald · Herald Reporters
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