Prague explosion injures 40 people

As many as 40 people are reported to have been injured in an explosion in the Czech capital Prague.

The powerful explosion has damaged a building in the centre of the capital Prague with people feared buried in the rubble.

Police have said they are not sure what caused the blast on Divadelni Street but it is likely to have been a gas explosion.

The street is covered with rubble and has been sealed off. Police also evacuated people from nearby buildings and closed a wide area around the explosion site.

Windows in buildings located hundreds of yard from the blast were shattered, including some in the nearby National Theater.

“There was glass everywhere and people shouting and crying,” Vaclav Rokyta, a Czech student, said.

Part of Prague’s Charles University and the Film and TV School of the Academy of Sciences of Performing Arts are located next to the damaged building.