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At least five people have been killed and 25 hurt after a cargo train derailed and exploded in Bulgaria.
Around 20 buildings in the northeastern village of Hitrino - home to around 800 people - were wrecked in the blast, when two gas tank carriages struck a power line and detonated in flames.
Around 150 firefighters battled to put out blazes across a wide area and search for survivors in the ruins of the burnt-out properties close to the rail track.
Hitrino mayor Nuridin Basri told reporters children had been buried under the rubble of a house that collapsed.
Prime minister Boiko Borisov, who travelled to the scene of the disaster some 174 miles northeast of the capital Sofia, urged people to donate blood at the hospital where the injured are being treated.
He said: "There will be more casualties."