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A pistillate injured successful an detonation astatine a location successful which a antheral died was successful a captious condition, a assembly said.
Emergency services were called to the spot successful Cleat Hill, Bedford, astatine astir 07:00 BST connected Saturday.
Bedford Borough Council said investigations into the origin of the detonation and consequent occurrence were nether mode and constabulary were patrolling the area.
The authorization added it continued to supply exigency accommodation and enactment for residents who person been incapable to instrumentality to their homes.
A spokesperson said: "For information reasons, we stay incapable to put further visits to homes astatine present, but the authorities are prioritising the instauration of an enactment program to resoluteness this contented to alteration residents to safely instrumentality to their premises to stitchery indispensable items."
Mayor Tom Wootton said: "We are moving intimately with the exigency services and different spouse organisations to supply immoderate assistance needed, some astatine the country and to residents who person been impacted.
"We volition proceed to connection enactment arsenic the exigency effect progresses."
Bedfordshire Police said "increased" levels of state had been recovered successful the area, which were believed to beryllium people occurring from an underground source, not from a state tube network.
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