{"id":14445,"date":"2024-10-17T12:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/second-body-found-in-rubble\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T12:40:40","slug":"second-body-found-in-rubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/second-body-found-in-rubble\/","title":{"rendered":"Second body found in rubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A second body has been found following an explosion which also killed a seven-year-old boy.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The victim, believed to be a man in his 30s, was found in the remains of three houses destroyed on Violet Close in Benwell, Newcastle.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The blast, which happened at about 00:45 BST on Wednesday, destroyed six flats along the street.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">An investigation by emergency services and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is under way, while gas service workers remain at the scene.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Formal identification of both of those who died is yet to take place, Northumbria Police said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Five adults and a child <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce8dl8gpz33o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">were also taken to hospital<!-- --><\/a> with varying degrees of injuries, with all but one discharged following treatment.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A man aged in his 30s remains in hospital in a critical but stable condition.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Officers also confirmed there were no reports of people related to the properties still missing.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Cordons around the site are \u201cexpected to be in place for some time\u201d, police said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Supt Darren Adams said the force was &#8220;committed to providing answers to what has happened&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c79n083lrdgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second body has been found following an explosion which also killed a seven-year-old boy. The victim, believed to be a man in his 30s, was found in the remains of three houses destroyed on Violet Close in Benwell, Newcastle. The blast, which happened at about 00:45 BST on Wednesday, destroyed six flats along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[942,6167],"class_list":["post-14445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-body","tag-rubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14447,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14445\/revisions\/14447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}