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What is the cause of the explosion in Suzhou commercial street? What's the situation at the scene?

At about 7 am today (August 8), two people were injured and sent to hospital after a flash explosion caused by a gas leak at a snack bar in Suzhou Sunshine World Commercial Street. The news was released at about 11:00 on August 8 by the public wechat of Guoxiang sub district office, Wuzhong District, Suzhou. The on-site monitoring video shows that at 7:40 on August 8, three people were sitting at the door of the shop on the right side of the picture chatting, and someone was cleaning up the garbage in the distance. Suddenly, an explosion occurred on the left side of the picture, and building fragments such as glass and door frame came out with a lot of smoke. After the smoke dispersed, only one person could be seen squatting on the open space with his head covered.

Surveillance video shows that after the explosion, chatting people in the picture were affected and injured, squatting on the ground.

Another scene picture showed that two men were injured and lying on the ground. The facade of two stores were almost completely destroyed by the explosion. The stores were in a mess, and a number of shops around were affected.

A shop owner surnamed Meng on the second floor of Yangguang Tiandi commercial street said that at about 7:40 a.m., she was resting at her home across the street from the shop when she heard a loud noise accompanied by a slight shaking: 'she was scared to wake up and thought it was an earthquake. "Another resident in the surrounding area also said that he heard the explosion.

Then she rushed to the shop. On the way, she saw more than ten restaurants on the first floor were affected by the explosion, with broken glass all over the floor. Two of the stores were the most serious. The glass on the second floor above the explosion point was all broken, and some pieces fell from the roof of her store: "the beef noodle shop and the rice noodle shop are next to each other, the most serious, so the explosion is invisible, uncertain Which house did the explosion take place. '

The shop owners said that until about 11 o'clock, there were still many police and firefighters in the commercial street. All the shops on the first floor were closed, and half of the shops on the second floor were closed: "the gas tanks of the snack bar on the first floor and the second floor were taken away by the property. '