Oldham Explosion

A suspected gas explosion reduced a house to smoking rubble, killed a 2-year-old boy and left a man seriously burned in northwest England on Tuesday, police and rescue workers said. Police were not linking the explosion to terrorism, but said they were treating the child's death as "suspicious."

A suspected gas explosion reduced a house to smoking rubble, killed a 2-year-old boy and left a man seriously burned in northwest England on Tuesday, police and rescue workers said. Police were not linking the explosion to terrorism, but said they were treating the child's death as "suspicious."