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Emergency services have rushed to the scene of an explosion in central Madrid which has left several people injured amid reports at least one person may be trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building belonging to the church.
In videos posted on social media, smoke can be seen rising from a multi-storey building that appears to have been gutted by the explosion.
The cause of the blast remains unknown – with Spanish public broadcaster TVE saying the explosion took place near a nursing home.
Madrid’s emergency services say rescue teams, firefighters and police are on the scene at Toledo Street, less than half a kilometer from local landmark the Puerta de Toledo.
They added that several people were injured in the blast, while a witness told Telemadrid broadcaster that there was at least one person trapped inside.
“The priests who live on the fifth and sixth floors are fine. We are trying to locate a volunteer who works with us,” the vicar general told Telemadrid.
Local resident Leire Reparaz, 24, who heard the blast said: “We didn’t know where the sound came from. We all thought it was from the school.
“We went up the stairs to the top of our building and we could see the structure of the building and lots of grey smoke.”
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