Thick smoke rises over a house in Upper Bavaria. An explosion sets it on fire. There are injured and missing.
Rohrbach an der Ilm – At least two people were injured in the explosion of a residential building in Rohrbach an der Ilm in Upper Bavaria. Two more have been missing so far, said a spokesman for the integrated control center in Ingolstadt on Thursday afternoon.
The apartment building collapsed after the explosion and started to burn.
A large number of rescue services were on site, and rescue dogs had been requested to search for missing people in the rubble, the spokesman said. At least one rescue helicopter was in use. The explosion was reported to the police on Thursday at around 12.40 p.m.
The municipality of Rohrbach an der Ilm is located around 30 kilometers from Ingolstadt. According to the Bayern portal, a good 6,000 residents were registered there (as of March 2021). dpa
