5 Killed In Allentown House Explosion

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (CBS) — Five people were killed when a powerful explosion rocked a Lehigh County neighborhood late Wednesday evening.

The explosion happened at about 10:45 p.m. in the 500 block of N. 13th Street in Allentown and shook houses in every direction. Frank Spaits said it felt so close, he worried his own home had been hit.

“We ran down thinking someone hit the front of our house,” said Spaits, “but we didn’t see anything outside.”

But never could he and his wife, Sue, imagine the blast had destroyed their friend’s house instead. Friends and neighbors identified two of the five victims as Bill and Beatrice Hall, an elderly couple in their 70′s that had lived on the block for decades.

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