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Eight people are dead and a further 50 have been injured after a reported boiler explosion and fire at a building in Tondela, Portugal.

Mayor Jose Antonio de Jesus said: “Several dozen people have been injured, some lightly and others gravely, and are still being assisted.”

A wood-burning stove is believed to have exploded in the two-story building around 250 kilometres north of Lisbon.

Civil Protection Agency commander Paulo Santos told local radio station TSF that at least 50 people were injured.