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ANOTHER EXPLOSION HITS NEAR WEEKEND BLAST SITE

- / AP

An explosion killed two people and injured 10 Tuesday night in the same Bolivian town where eight people died and 40 were injured during weekend Carnival celebratio­ns by a blast that has been blamed on a leak in a gas canister. Interior Secretary Carlos Romero said three people had been detained after the latest explosion while authoritie­s investigat­e its cause. The blast occurred in the Altiplano region town of Oruro a block from where an explosion happened Saturday night. Romero said investigat­ors were still studying the first blast to see if it was due to a bad connection on a gas canister as originally thought. Romero said the second explosion dug a crater of “significan­t dimension” and was not believed to have been caused by a gas leak.

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