The Nation - News from April 10, 1987
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Searchers digging through the wreckage of two buildings in the South Bronx said they found a gas meter with bullet holes in it but still did not know what caused the blast that leveled the structures, killing six people and injuring 29. Officials said that a gas leak could have caused the explosion after survivors reported smelling gas just before the blast. The damaged meter had three “dime-sized holes” in it.
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