FATAL EXPLOSION
SEQUEL TO PLANE CRASH ON ROOF. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 21, 7.55 p.m.) PARIS, December 20. A military ’plane crashed on the roof of a house in a Parisian suburb, the pilot being killed instantly. The inhabitants rushed into the street. Policemen and volunteers raising ladders, attempted to reach the wreckage. A septuagenarian woman resident returned to the house to secure her savings, when a violent explosion occurred owing to petrol reaching the stove through the chimney. The explosion killed the woman, and injured nineteen.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19372, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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90FATAL EXPLOSION Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19372, 22 December 1932, Page 9
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