Shrewsbury Gas Explosion

Just down the road this morning here in Shrewsbury town centre, at about 11:20am, there was a massive gas explosion.  As I write this, all of the emergency services are there and a big chunk of the town is sealed off.

There is debris all across the road from the destroyed building, which is on Smithfield Road just on the junction with the Welsh Bridge, right across to the building opposite, Morris Properties offices, where several windows have been blown out.  The building adjoining the destroyed one is the Shrewsbury Hotel pub, although I could not see whether that was damaged.

The gas explosion caused many alarms to go off and many windows in the town centre were broken, even several streets away.

Photos I took here: Shrewsbury Gas Explosion Photos