A car belonging to the Catalan Mossos d'Esquadra is parked next a house which was razed by an explosion when suspected jihadists used gas canisters shortly before midnight on Wednesday in Alcanar, southwest of Barcelona, Spain August 18, 2017. REUTERS/Andres Gonzalez
ALCANAR, Spain (Reuters) - It looks like the site of an earthquake - a heap of rubble and tangled wreckage that marks the spot where a two-storey home was destroyed by a massive gas explosion just before midnight on Wednesday.
Spanish police said they initially thought the blast in the small coastal town of Alcanar, which killed at least one person and injured seven, was connected to a clandestine drugs laboratory.
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