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Explosion injures six in Illinois


    CHICAGO (Reuters) - At least six people were injured on Thursday in a suspected gas explosion inside a beauty salon that also wrecked two adjacent stores in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan, Illinois, authorities said.

    Rescuers were searching through the rubble inside thesingle-story building to determine if there were any othervictims.

    "We had reports of people strewn about the streets but itwas actually mannequins from the (tuxedo rental) business,"Waukegan Deputy Fire Chief Dan Young told local radio.

    The city's police chief said the explosion was believed tohave been caused by a natural gas explosion. Gas andelectricity had been cut off to the surrounding area.

    (Reporting by Andrew Stern, Editing by Sandra Maler)