Five from N.Z. escape blast
PA Timaru Five New Zealanders were in the ill-fated Los Alfaques holiday camp in Spain when the gas truck exploded, but they escaped without injury. One of the party, Miss Trixie Teahen, telephoned her parents, Mr and Mrs M. L. Teahen, at their home at Pleasant Point in South Canterbury yesterday to tell them that she had escaped the holocaust from which the death toll is approaching 200, Miss Teahen said that the New Zealanders fortunately
had not been near the seat of the explosion. Her telephone call was the first confirmation that New Zealanders were in the camp at the time; first reports said none were on the camp register. “Trixie said the group had been advised by the authorities to inform their relatives that they were unharmed,” said Mrs Teahen. “She just said they were all okay but that it was an experience she would not like repeated.” Further report, Page 8.
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