BREAKING: Five people are now confirmed to have died following a huge explosion which destroyed a block of flats in Jersey.
Robin Smith, chief of Jersey Police, warned it is likely to take specialist teams ‘weeks’ to complete their ‘meticulous and painstaking’ search through the rubble.
A blast destroyed the three-storey Haut du Mont block in Pier Road in the Channel Island’s capital at about 4am on Saturday.
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