Body found after southeast explosion
Posted Sep 13, 2011 7:59 am.
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One person is dead and two others are injured after an explosion and fire in Calgary’s southeast.
The police arson unit was called in after firefighters found a body while battling the resulting blaze.
It happened in a green space in an industrial area in the 1500 block of Manitou Road; police say it could be a squatter’s camp.
The two injured men are in hospital suffering burns; there’s no word on whether the deceased is a man or woman.
Riley tells 660News he was working late at a printing shop across the road when he heard the explosion.
“It was just like coming through the two walls here, like a big speaker echoing through the two windows,” he says.
He says several smaller blasts could be heard and described the fire as a massive, glowing orange ball.
