SAN ANTONIO - An 80-year-old San Antonio couple are hospitalized with extensive burns after their home exploded in a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the city.


Virginia Mann and companion Frank Nava are in Brooke Army Medical Center's burn unit after the 12:30 p.m. Tuesday explosion. That's according to Mann's son, Johnny Mann.

Hospital spokeswoman Jen Rodriguez says Mann is in critical condition, while Nava is stable.

The son tells the San Antonio Express-News that the couple were both in the house when the house exploded, blowing a wall out, collapsing the roof, shattering a nearby car window and filling nearby streets and yards with broken glass.

San Antonio Fire Department spokeswoman Deborah Foster tells The Associated Press that a natural gas leak is suspected as the cause of the blast.

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Information from: San Antonio Express-News, http://www.mysanantonio.com


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