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ABI responds to Merton Council leader comments in wake of Thornton Heath gas explosion

By 2022-09-06T14:58:00

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The trade association said it would continue to monitor any developments and reiterated that insurers would continue to do everything they can to assist impacted residents

The ABI has called out some “misleading comments” in a letter to Merton Council about the fallout following the Thornton Heath gas explosion on 8 August 2022.

The explosion, which was caused by a gas leak, which reducing a terraced house to rubble crushing the four-year-old girl, Sahara Salman which lived there to death, and leaving more than 200 residents homeless.

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