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Fatal blast: Firefighters arrived just minutes after an explosion ripped apart a north Brampton restaurant early today, crushing one man to death beneath a pile of rubble and injuring a co-worker
Fatal blast: Firefighters arrived just minutes after an explosion ripped apart a north Brampton restaurant early today, crushing one man to death beneath a pile of rubble and injuring a co-worker

Fatal blast: Firefighters arrived just minutes after an explosion ripped apart a north Brampton restaurant early today, crushing one man to death beneath a pile of rubble and injuring a co-worker

Date11/30/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Fatal blast: Firefighters arrived just minutes after an explosion ripped apart a north Brampton restaurant early today; crushing one man to death beneath a pile of rubble and injuring a co-worker.
Subject
GeographyCity, town, townshipBrampton
GeographyRegion or DistrictPeel (Ont. : Regional municipality)
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
Medium
Photographs
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0006171F
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Fatal blast
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