EXPLOSION OF CYLINDER
Four Killed In Crowd (N.Z.P. A. -Reuter—Copyright) NOUMEA, Nov. 22. Two adults and two children were killed and 27 persons injured when a cookinggas cylinder was thrown into a crowd watching a burning building in Noumea, New Caledonia. The victims, all from the Pacific Wallis Island, were watching a blaze in their living quarters at the Societe Nickel smelting plant when the portable cylinder was thrown among them and exploded, spewing flaming gas.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31225, 24 November 1966, Page 23
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