Chief: Minneapolis apartment fire injures 13, 6 of them critically (Religion of Peace alert?)

Star Tribune ^ | January 1, 2014 | Randy Furst and Josephine Marcotty

[Zakeet]

Fourteen people were injured, six critically, early Wednesday morning after an explosion caused a major fire at a grocery store and apartment building in the bustling Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in south Minneapolis.

Minneapolis Fire Chief John Fruetel said they do not know yet if all the residents are accounted for. Some made it out on their own into the subzero temperatures, but others had to be rescued with ladders.

Mohamed Cheikhabdi, head of the Somali Advocate Justice Center, said that family members have reported that three individuals living in the apartments are not in the hospital and have not been accounted for. They are worried that they may have died in the fire, he said.

Asked if anyone had been found inside, Fruetel said water was still being poured on the building and firefighters have not yet been able to enter. Fire investigators are on the scene, and city inspectors are assessing the structural integrity of the building, he said.

Police are interviewing victims at the hospital.

[livius]

Could be. I’m not sure they’d be dumb enough to attack Americans right nearby, but then, nobody ever said jihadis were smart. Just full of hatred.

[cableguymn]

They are calling it a natural gas leak..

IDK..

Maybe it was.