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Police Stop Evacuation

KOMPAS.com - Until late Thursday (03/06/2010) early morning, the police finally stopped the evacuation at the center of the explosion of a building in Jalan Slompretan, Surabaya. "We stopped the evacuation because of the limitations of lighting coupled with still lots of parts of the buildings collapsed. It can be harmful," said Chief of Police Resort City (Kapolresta) North Surabaya Day AKBP Joko Utomo adding evacuation process will be continued on Thursday morning.

The police, in the information as preached Radio Elshinta Jakarta allegedly also said there were three people trapped inside the building. Not only that, but still there are about 500 LPG cylinders containing the gas.

Until now, the police still put up police lines at the scene. Meanwhile, weather conditions at the location of light rain fell.

Still according to police, one victim was named Imron pascaledakan affected part of the building died while being taken to hospital dr Sutomo to get help.