Bronx Explosion: High School Blast Injures 3

All three were taken to Jacobi Hospital.

A gas line explosion rocked a Manhattan high school building during a construction work, injuring three people and severely damaging the multi-storey building. The story behind the blast is still being investigated, but Mayor Bill de Blasio has confirmed that officials are considering it a gas explosion. Nearby buildings shook, and residents poured onto the street. More than 100 firefighters responded to The Kennedy Campus on Terrace View Avenue just after 8 p.m. And the roof looks like it has suffered structural damage as well.

A report in CBS New York quoted energy company Con Edison as saying that the blast was a gas explosion. A Consolidated Edison utility spokesman says the explosion happened on the school’s sixth floor. The first day of classes for the 2015-2016 school year at the school is set for September 9.

At least three floors of the building were heavily damaged, officials told CBS2.

The high school once served nearly 1,300 students in grades 9-12 but the campus now hosts six specialty schools, including institutions focused on law and on theater.