• Events One seriously injured and sixteen slightly injured in an explosion in a house in the Barrio de Salamanca in Madrid

The residents of the Salamanca district still have fear embedded in their bodies.

"The explosion was so strong that we thought

it was a bomb"

is one of the most repeated testimonies among residents and workers of General Pardiñas Street, where an explosion in an attic has caused 16 minor injuries and one serious injury.

The moment of the explosion has been terrible for many of the neighbors who did not know what was happening.

Carmen is one of the neighbors who was at the hairdresser's just in front

of the damaged building

.

"

In my life I have been so scared

. We have all started to scream and cry. It still makes me want to cry," this neighbor told Telemadrid.

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