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Blast rocks midtown Manhattan
19/07/2007 00:48 - (SA)
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| This frame grab video image taken from WABC TV Eyewitness News shows the scene of a suspected steam explosion near Grand Central Station in Manhattan. |
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New York - An transformer exploded in
midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, creating a huge plume of smoke
and sending pedestrians fleeing from the scene, but police said
the blast did not look suspicious.
"It doesn't look suspicious at this time," a police
spokesperson told Reuters.
A witness reported that a building had collapsed, but New
York City police said the building had not fallen, but was
"shaky".
"There is debris falling, get back," a fireman told
onlookers. People were being kept a block away.
"There was a thundering noise like a hundred freight trains
going by and a plume of what looks like steam as high as 10
stories," said former Reuters correspondent Irwin Arieff.
The explosion took place near 42nd Street on the east side
of midtown Manhattan during the evening rush hour.
Subway trains were diverted away from Grand Central
station.
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