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Major explosion rocks Utrecht neighbourhood, leaving homes destroyed and four injured

Several buildings in Utrecht鈥檚 historic city centre have collapsed in the blast, and it was a stroke of luck that no one was home during the explosion.聽 The Visscherssteeg, an alley...
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