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‘Strong smell of gas’ hours before Ayr explosion which left family-of-four seriously injured

20.10.2021 - 06:57

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Residents on an Ayr street which was rocked by a massive explosion which left four people seriously injured have claimed there was a ‘strong smell of gas’ in the hours before.

Gary Burgess told the Daily Record that he noticed the worrying odour in the air on Monday morning as he went to collect his morning paper.

The 45-year-old, who lives yards away from Gorse Park, thought a lorry had hit his house when he heard the huge blast shortly after 7pm that same day.

Several locals claimed to have reported the smell to Scottish Gas Networks but the distributor has denied that their engineers were called out before the incident.