BOY HOSPITALISED AFTER SCHOOL EXPLOSION

A 15-year-old boy has been taken to hospital with minor injuries to his leg, following an explosion in a toilet at Lismore’s Trinity Catholic College this morning,

Emergency services were called to the St Joseph’s site on Leycester Street just before 9:30.

Students were evacuated from the campus.

“They discovered an area within a toilet block that had a number of aerosol cans that had been ignited and there was a little bit of smoke, and soot damage in the area.”

Classes resumed about an hour later.

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