On Sunday night, a house exploded in Ellefeld in the Vogtlandkreis district in Saxony and burned down together with the neighboring house. The 67-year-old homeowner was missing after the incident early Sunday morning, a police spokesman said. It is believed that the man was buried under the rubble of the exploded apartment building.
After the residents had initially perceived a loud explosion, burned half of the two terraced houses bright, as the police announced. Then the fire spread to the attached neighboring house. The building was no longer habitable after the fire.
The house where the explosion occurred was almost completely in ruins. More than 100 firefighters were still busy with the extinguishing work on Sunday morning.
The resulting property damage and the cause of the explosion were previously unknown.