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Explosion at Canaries hotel leaves 23 people injured
A gas explosion at a hotel in the Gran Canaria has left six people seriously injured and 17 others hurt.
The explosion happened at the Hotel Cordial Mogán Playa in the south east of the island where 862 were reportedly staying.
Five of the six people seriously injured are hotel employees at the hotel while the sixth is a 55-year-old Norwegian tourist who is in a critical condition with serious burns to his whole body.
According to Think Spain, a gas tanker was filling the internal gas deposits at the hotel when the explosion happened.
Psychologists have been brought in to help staff and guests cope with the horrific scenes they witnessed after the blast.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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