Explosion at Florida jail injures over a hundred

Police say 2 people are dead following an apparent gas explosion at a jail in Pensacola, Fla. which has caused a partial building collapse.

At least 100 people, including both staff and inmates, have been injured at the facility in Florida’s Escambia County, police say.

Photo: A victim of an apparent explosion at the Escambia County Jail in Pensacola, Florida, is loaded into an ambulance early Thursday morning (T.S. Strickland / Pensacola News Journal)

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