35 children die
The blast at noon caused part of the Mariano Ugalde College, a State-run school.
NZPA-Reuter Bilboa Between 35 and '4O children were feared killed
when an explosion severly damaged a school at Ortuello, near the Spanish Basque city of Bilboa, yesterday, according to first official estimates.
to collapse, trapping an unknown number of children under the. debris. The police said it could have been caused by an exploding gas cylinder which caused a heating boiler to blow up. There were 1300 children
in the school when the explosion occurred about noon.
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