Gas explosion in Bavaria - Lehrberg, near Ansbach

Full article from The Age: Gas explosion in Germany kills one

More detailed article, in German from Yahoo! News: Mindestens ein Toter nach Gasexplosion in Lehrberg

Jebus, is today jinxed or something? This and the transrapid crash and heaven knows what else!

The persons killed were either members of the bakery family or worked in the bakery. The rescue crew is still looking for missing persons but have no hope to find them alive.
Shortly before the explosion occurred people had smelled gas and called the fire department - a tank of natural gas belonging to the inn next to the bakery was leaking. The fire department was trying to disperse the gas cloud with water when the tank exploded. The explosion could be heard in a circumfrence of 25 km, several buildings in the surroundings were severely damaged.
(courtesy of Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23 Sep 2006)
This will probably cause lots of agony and anger in the community where everyone knew everyone else and the inn owner will be blamed for the catastrophe.

This is the town over from where I work. Tiny little village. Lots of Ami's go to eat there from the base.

How awful that the F.D. was there are working on the issue, and yet it still happened.

I drove through Lehrberg this morning and it was cetainly a big explosion. The entire building was crashed to the ground. Quite a tragedy for such a small village.