Dozens killed in Taiwan gas blasts as CCTV footage captures explosion

A series of underground gas explosions have killed at least 24 people and injured 271 in Taiwan’s second-largest city, hurling concrete through the air and blasting long trenches in the streets.

The series of overnight explosions struck a district where several petrochemical firms operate pipelines alongside the sewer system in Kaohsiung, a south-western port of 2.8 million people.