
Explosion at duplex in Virginia's Hampton Roads area critically injures 2, official says
CNN
An explosion ripped apart a duplex in the southeastern Virginia city of Franklin on Friday night, critically injuring two people and spurring investigators to try to figure out what caused it, the city manager said.
The explosion was reported around 10:50 p.m. ET in a residential area of Franklin, a city of about 8,000 people in Virginia's Hampton Roads region, City Manager Amanda Jarratt told CNN.
The blast happened in a duplex, Jarratt told CNN affiliate WTKR. One injured person was airlifted to a trauma center, and the other was taken to a different medical facility, she told CNN.

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