20 missing after blast

Emergency services were still looking for 20 people yesterday after a gas explosion tore through an apartment block in central Ukraine, killing 10 people and injuring 24 others, an Emergencies Ministry official said.

Several explosions in succession struck a residential area of the city of Dnipropetrovsk on Saturday, the largest sending rubble cascading down on residents in a large block of flats.

(China Daily 10/15/2007 page9)