Video, photos: huge explosion in the inner district of the capital, one dead

A gas explosion occurred in a house in Bérkocsis Street in the capital’s 8th district on Monday morning, Máté Kisdi, spokesman of the Budapest Emergency Management Directorate, told MTI. András Pikó, the mayor of the district (Momentum-DK-MSZP-Párbeszéd-LMP) wrote on his Facebook page about the incident that they are helping the residents of the house.

According to the spokesman for disaster management, the one-storey apartment building’s slab collapsed, the walls crumbled, windows and doors were torn out, but no fire was caused.

Five people left the damaged old apartment building. One person was rescued from the rubble by firefighters and handed over to rescuers, he added.

Electricity and gas company technicians are on the scene and have disconnected the block from the mains, the spokesman said.

András Pikó wrote that the municipality had already declared the house to be demolished, and most of the residents had moved out.