Three killed, several missing after explosion on island of Jersey

FILE PHOTO: A man walks below the Union and Jersey flags in St Helier, Jersey, Britain November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Darren Staples

LONDON (Reuters) -Three people were killed and around a dozen others remain missing after an explosion early on Saturday morning at a block of flats on the island of Jersey, off the coast of northern France.

"We now have, I regret to say, three fatalities," Robin Smith, Chief Officer of the States of Jersey Police, told a news conference.