SAFETY checks remain ongoing after a gas explosion in a Bournemouth neighbourhood put a woman in hospital.
Multiple emergency services rushed to Gunville Crescent in Muscliff following the incident at around 9.45am on Tuesday, including an air ambulance, fire crews, police along with engineers from gas network company SGN.
The homeowner, who was in the property at the time, was taken to hospital in Southampton by land ambulance.
A spokeswoman for SGN said safety checks are ongoing and a police cordon remains in the road as workmen from SGN dig up the pavement to determine what has happened.
Katie Lobban, spokesperson for gas network company SGN, said: "Our engineers have carried out essential safety checks and established that yesterday’s incident in Gunville Crescent was not related to our gas network.
"We’ve made the situation safe by isolating gas supplies to the affected properties, and we’d like to reassure the local community that our network remains secure.
"Our engineers will remain on site for some time, to complete the works we started yesterday.
"Our thoughts remain with the person who was injured during the incident.
Residents in the area heard a loud bang and houses shaking when the explosion occurred.
Muscliff resident Becca said: “I was just sat inside with my mum and we heard a really loud explosion and the house completely shook and just to give proximity, like, we're across the road from where it happened.
“So, we went outside, we honestly thought, like a car had crashed or something into someone's house.
“A lady up the road came out as well and said, that all of her stuff had fallen off the wall from the explosion shaking. And then we went across the road to try and locate where it was and we just heard a guy shouting, screaming, ‘call for an ambulance.’”
“So we went up through the alleyway and there was smoke everywhere, debris everywhere. Obviously it just exploded.”
She said the homeowner’s front window had been blown through during the incident and paperwork and belongings were all over the garden and pavement.
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