Fatal building explosion in Argentina

A POWERFUL blast has ripped through a 10-storey building in Argentina's third largest city, leaving at least one person dead and 15 injured.

Firefighters said apparently a furnace in the downtown apartment building in Rosario exploded on Tuesday, setting the property ablaze and shattering windows in other buildings.

The blast wiped away the front of the edifice, leaving the insides of people's homes and gutted balconies visible from the street below.

Scenes of panic abounded as sirens wailed and people ran through the streets or gawked at the ruined structure, some of them crying.

Rosario's top health official, Leonardo Caruana, said one person had been killed and 15 others injured.

The deceased was a 21-year-old woman who lived in the building, a medical source told AFP.

Mayor Monica Fein said 17 ambulances were on the scene to help people burned in the fire, which she said stemmed from a gas leak.

As it was not immediately possible to cut off the gas supply to the building, people within a radius of two kilometres of it had been evacuated.

"The shock wave was tremendous," the superintendent of a building 200 metres from the site of the explosion, told the TV station C5N.

The blast sent flames roaring through the building, as fire truck sirens sounded and traffic clogged the city centre.

Windows shattered in buildings in a radius of several hundred metres from the site.

Rosario is home to 1.1 million people and is located 300 kilometres north of Buenos Aires. It is Argentina's main port for farm exports.

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