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Gas explosion in suburb of Buenos Aires injures at least 20

Verified: 2 outlets have reported this story since Nov 13, 1 of them from Argentina.

📍 Buenos Aires, AR·🕐 1h ago·2 outlets

Explosion in Remedios de Escalada occurred after workers from the gas company damaged a pipe while carrying out maintenance work in street; Twenty injured, five seriously. Leer más

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Also reported by riotimesonline.com (found in GDELT's list of news articles)

39m ago
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[Claude, second read] Rates it MEDIUM, not HIGH. Gas explosion injuring at least 20 falls under the 10+ injured medium tier, not 100+. Lowered from HIGH to MEDIUM.

1h ago
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84%

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