Pensioner suffers serious burns in gas explosion

A PENSIONER is being treated in hospital for serious burns when his house was extensively damaged in a gas explosion in the Donegal Gaeltacht on Sunday night.

Pensioner suffers serious burns in gas explosion

Emergency services were called to the scene in the Cluain Baire area of Falcarragh at about 10pm on Sunday after neighbours heard a loud explosion.

The injured man has been named locally as Conal McFadden, 68, a retired Donegal County Council lorry driver.

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