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Gas explosion near Paris injures 30 people

PARIS, Oct 30 (Reuters) Some 30 people were injured, 10 seriously, in a gas explosion in a building north of Paris, police and local officials said today.

Police said the explosion happened after workers hit a gas main.

''There are ten people seriously injured and 20 other people have been hurt,'' Gilbert Roger, mayor of the city of Bondy where the explosion happened, told Reuters by phone.

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