A violent explosion in the Hague in the Netherlands has got a house to collapse.
There is a residential building on three floors, and the reason for the collapse is, according to the emergency services is probably a gas explosion.
the Fire department writes according to the news agency NTB on Twitter that nine people have been injured by the explosion and collapse.
Photo: Piroschka van de Wouw/Ritzau Scanpix
Seven of the injured people are brought at the hospital, but rescuers are looking still for other possible victims in the rubble from the site.
A spokesman for the fire department says that there ‘probably was several people’ in the property when the accident occurred.
There are numerous emergency vehicles and their teams at work on the site.
Among other things there is also a crane.
Photo: Piroschka van de Wouw/Ritzau Scanpix
