Police say 10 missing after German gas explosion

BERLIN, Sep 22 (Reuters) Police were searching for 10 people after a gas explosion in a village in northern Bavaria destroyed an apartment block and barn complex, a police spokesman said today.

''Ten people are missing,'' a police spokesman in Nueremberg said. Three injured people were rescued from the debris of the destroyed apartment block in the village of Lehrberg, north of Ansbach.

Several other houses were damaged in the explosion which occured when a gas tank was being filled.

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