Major incident in Leicester

[SunnySeaShell]

Not sure what it yet...

Shit, I live very near Leicester. What's happening?

Well why not wait till it is known before spreading alarm in the race to post first. I will be reporting this.

Yes dd just read that out! Could be anything

It seems to be an 'explosion' and a fire but I don't think it's sinister...

an explosion near a londis, on twitter

Yes I'm sorry, will report myself

Gas explosion in a commercial property, apparently. Stand down, to some extent at least...

why report the thread? it's okay to talk about things as they happen surely

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/25/breaking-newspolice-declare-major-incident-leicester-amid-reports/

Sure, if something has happened. The op doesn't know what, why or where. All this will do is scare the crap out of people.

I think there are far worse threads on MN which will 'scare the crap out of people'

I've reported, the last thing that I wanted to do was cause alarm, sorry folks

"Please avoid the area"

.......so everyone and their gran pops down to the police cordon to have a look

And OP, you are't scaring the crap out of anyone. You are informing them.

It’s fine OP. I hear more about world events on mn than anywhere else, don’t feel bad.

Ffs Northern you don't get to decide who can post what

I don't have a news app on my phone so I rely on Mumsnet for news! for you OP, some people get a bit snippy on here. No need to take the thread down.

Thanks for informing op, no need to worry about reporting the thread

And to be fair to the OP, something HAS happened.

Dd just ran downstairs to tell me this. Hope there are no fatalities. Sounds like a gas explosion but very little details. Search & rescue underway.

and it’s breaking news so why shouldn’t there be a thread.

It looks like this was the building there before.

(no idea how old this google maps image is so it may have changed)

£5 says it's a gas leak

Supermarket and flat above have been obliterated. Really hope no-one is hurt after . If this is a gas explosion then it will be the second in Leicester area in a couple of months . One in our village in December killed an elderly lady and has left many other families temporarily homeless.

Gas is always my first thought.