Madrid: 17 Injured in Building Explosion (Videos)

At least 17 people were injured as a strong explosion that rocked a four-storey building being renovated in central Madrid on Friday.

Spanish authorities reported that rescue teams were searching for people potentially trapped inside, noting that four people were taken to hospital, and one was seriously injured. They stated that the cause of the explosion was not yet clear.

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"Some kind of works were being done in the building" in the upmarket Salamanca neighborhood where the explosion occurred, Madrid Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida said.

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"Firefighters are inside checking the building's structure and to determine whether more people could be inside," he told Telemadrid TV channel.

Moreover, emergency service spokeswoman Gema Martin affirmed that a school across the road from the building was not damaged, adding that there was no need to evacuate the children.