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A ‘large explosion’ that felt like an ‘earthquake’ ripped aside a constructing within the early hours in South Wales final night time sparking a large emergency response. One individual nonetheless unaccounted for and feared “missing in the rubble.”

Flames and smoke had been seen after a hearth broke out at a property on Severn Road, Treforest Industrial Estate, at round 7pm on Wednesday. The two-storey constructing was “totally alight” and “at risk of collapse”, South Wales Fire and Rescue Service mentioned.

Three folks had been handled on the scene earlier than they had been discharged, a Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson mentioned. Local NHS emergency departments had been on “high alert” after the blaze, with folks requested to not attend A&E except “absolutely necessary”.

There are not any stories of any severe accidents, nonetheless one individual stays unaccounted for, South Wales Police mentioned. Significant highway closures stay in place and the general public is requested to keep away from the world.

Local MP Alex Davies-Jones, MP for Pontypridd, mentioned on Wednesday night there had been “walking wounded” after the blast and a neighborhood enterprise proprietor mentioned her tattoo store “just exploded”.

Speaking to the BBC, the supervisor of a close-by Esso storage, Krishnaraj Nadarajah, mentioned he contacted the hearth service and shut off the pumps on the station. He mentioned: “It felt like it was an earthquake or something.”

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