Explosion Kills Twenty-Seven

Series

Series Name

Pathe News

Issue

Issue No.

55/100

Date Released

15 Dec 1955

Length of issue (in feet)

650

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Doom Town
2. 2Ibn Saud at Taj Mahal
3. 3Strange Friends
4. 4Strange Friends
5. 5Explosion Kills Twenty-Seven
6. 6Boxing News
7. 7Manors for Sale
8. *Singapore’s Minister Arrives in London

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

5 / 7

Summary

A gas explosion wrecks a German five-story house while families sleep - and 27 people lose their lives.

Keywords

Accidents and disasters

Locations

Germany; Frankfurt am Main

Footage sources

Neue Deutsche Wochenschau

Credits:

Camera

Norman William Roper

Length of story (in feet)

79

Story extras:

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