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Boston explosions: 8,000 people evacuated and teenager dies amid 70 blasts and fires

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Boston explosions: 8,000 people evacuated and teenager dies amid 70 blasts and firesThe sheer scale of a series of gas explosions which ripped through three Boston neighbourhoods and killed a teenager became apparent on Friday as it emerged 8,000 people had been evacuated. Some 70 separate fires, blasts and gas odours were reported during the incident, in which 18-year-old Leonel Rondon was killed by a falling chimney. Fire chief Michael Mansfield said investigators suspected “over-pressurisation of a gas main” caused the incident on Thursday.