Emergency crews had been searching around the clock for a woman in her 30s feared trapped under the collapsed townhouse in Sydney's west.
Rescue teams have found the body of a woman after an explosion collapsed a western Sydney unit complex. A woman in her 30s was missing and feared buried alive after an explosion on Waikanda Crescent at Whalan levelled most of the two-storey property just before 1pm on Saturday. Authorities said the body of a woman, yet to be formally identified, was found about 3.20am on Monday.
"My whole house is run on gas, I can't even have a hot shower because they have turned it off I can't use my stove." "We could smell gas for the last two weeks," another woman said. While the cause of the explosion remains unknown, NSW Deputy Premier Prue Car said she was "deeply concerned" and that the reports of a gas smell were being urgently investigated.
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