Building owners tell of explosion ‘horror’
Tuesday 5th January 2010, 6:30PM GMT.
The damage in the Shrewsbury Hotel car park. Picture by Ian Sheppard.
Two brothers who were hoping to turn a former gym supply shop into an Indian restaurant which was destroyed in a gas explosion today said they had no idea how it happened.
Bokul Miah and his brother Mashuk were relocating their Kasturi 2 restaurant from Claremont Bank to the premises in Bridge Street.
They said no work had been carried out at the site over Christmas and said they were still weeks away from having gas installed there.
It came as the owner of a flat above the shop unit, which was at the centre of the explosion which injured 12 people and caused it to collapse, today spoke of his horror, and another family faced another night away from home after their shop was damaged.
Nineteen-year-olds Sam Devine-Turner and Sarah Pearse, in addition to Scott Godbold and Angharad Davies, are all being treated for burns at Selly Oak Hospital.
Kiley McDonnell, who was starring in the Peter Pan pantomime at Theatre Severn as the character Jovial Jake was also injured and is being treated for spinal injuries at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
The old K2 Indian restaurant closed in September and has since reopened as Claremont Indian Cuisine and is run by a different business.
The Miah brothers said the opening of the new K2 had been postponed because they were on a waiting list for gas to be supplied to the site.
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