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Man suffers horror burns in gas bottle explosion

A man has been taken to hospital after a gas bottle explosion between Bundaberg and Gladstone.

A man has been airlifted to hospital following a gas bottle explosion. Picture: Peter Carruthers
A man has been airlifted to hospital following a gas bottle explosion. Picture: Peter Carruthers

A man has been flown to hospital following a gas bottle explosion between Bundaberg and Gladstone.

The explosion happened at a private address on Tableland Road at Mount Maria at 2.51am.

Paramedics and a rescue helicopter attended the scene, with one man in his 60s being assessed for burns to his legs.

He later flown to Bundaberg Hospital in a stable condition, a Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman said.

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