A gas explosion has ripped through a residential street in the Shaw area, leaving one child dead, a man in hospital with 80% burns, a third person trapped
Dean Nankivell, station manager at Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, said "although the operation at the scene was still being treated as a search and rescue mission, everyone had been accounted for and no one had been found trapped in the rubble as first thought"
Mr Nankivell said "there was one known death and the injured man rescued by firemen suffered serious burns".
Special equipment and sniffer dogs had scoured the rubble to ensure no one else was trapped.
He said: "The scene down there is catastrophic. Its just a great big pile of bricks.
"Whatever has caused this has gone with some force. Gas is definitely a strong contender.
"This is looking like a gas explosion.
"Everybody has been accounted for, we are treating it as a search and rescue but leading on to the next phase."
The young child killed in the gas explosion has been named locally as two-year-old Jamie Heaton, according to the Manchester Evening News.
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