Houston Bar Explosion – level 1

17-06-2020 07:00

On Friday, a bar explodes in Houston, US. The explosion happens at 5 am. Fortunately, the bar closes at 11 pm the night before. Nobody is in the bar when it explodes.

Officials say that nobody gets hurt. However, the explosion is very strong. It destroys a nearby food truck. The explosion breaks windows of nearby houses. People say that walls move. Pictures fall off walls.

Officials must find out know what happens. At the moment, they do not know. However, it seems that gas explodes in the bar. The owner of the bar works on the bar last year. The explosion totally destroys the bar.

Difficult words: explode (to break up into pieces and it make a lot of noise at the same time), explosion (the moment when something breaks up into pieces and it makes a lot of noise), destroy (to damage very badly).

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