Boys Killed When Petrol Drum Explodes
SYDNEY, Thu., 1.30 p.m.).— Two brothers, aged four and three years, died in Narrabri Hospital from burns received when a petrol drum exploded. They were playing with an old drum believed to be empty. One decided to make a fire and lit paper in the drum. Employees of a nearby sawmill heal’d an explosion and found the boys writhing on the ground near the shattered drum, pieces of which were scattered over 50 yards.
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1949, Page 5
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