A 68-year-old woman was seriously injured in a gas explosion on a farm on the outskirts of Mata parish in Castelo Branco. The incident took place in the kitchen of an outbuilding used as a secondary home by the victim and her husband, who live in the center of the village, about a kilometer away. “The causes of the explosion are being clarified, but everything suggests that it was a leak of gas that had accumulated in the room overnight. The cylinder feeding the system did not burst, and the explosion occurred only due to accumulated gas,” he said. morning Post source of relief operations. The same source reports that “the woman received burns, mainly internal, to the respiratory tract. It was her husband who transported her from the farm to the national road, where she was assisted by a VMER doctor from Castelo Branco before she was transferred to the Amato Lusitano Hospital.” She was then transferred to the Hospital and University Center of Coimbra. The alarm was received by number 112 from the victim’s husband at 9:22. Three vehicles from the Castelo Branco fire service were mobilized to the scene, but they did not go into action because the explosion did not cause a fire or endanger the habitability of the structure.