Police: 3rd person dies following Nebraska house explosion

Police: 3rd person dies following Nebraska house explosion
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December 12th, 2020 | Karen Schmer

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Police say a third person has died from injuries received in an explosion that leveled a house in Omaha, Nebraska. Police said Thursday in a news release that 28-year-old Alexander Toledo died Wednesday at a burn unit in Kansas City, Missouri.

Toledo had been found by neighbors sitting outside the destroyed home with severe burns following the Tuesday morning blast. Toledos grandmother, 73-year-old Theresa Toledo, and another woman, 45-year-old Angela Miller, were killed in the explosion. Seventy-two-year-old Larry Rodriguez was critically injured. Officials have not said what caused the blast.

Theresa Toledo on Monday had asked a judge to order Alexander Toledo out of the home, saying she feared he would “start my house on fire.”

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