Girl, 10, critically injured in Haifa gas blast
Second woman lightly injured as explosion devastates store in northern port city
Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A 10-year-old girl was critically injured on Monday evening in a large explosion on a street in the northern city of Haifa.
Large numbers of police and rescue services converged on the scene on Hehalutz Street minutes after the explosion shook the port city.
A woman, 40, was also lightly injured in the incident, and a teenage boy was left in shock.
The girl was evacuated to the Rambam Medical Center for treatment.
The blast erupted from a closed store during the evening, Channel 2 reported.
Initial investigations focused on a gas balloon explosion as being the likely cause of the disaster, and not criminal activity.
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