FREDERICTON, N.B. – One person was injured after a small explosion in a lab at the University of New Brunswick on Thursday morning.
Fredericton fire department responded to Toole Hall at UNB’s Fredericton campus just before 10 a.m. where a small explosion had occurred in a lab.
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One person was sent to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
This is the second explosion that’s happened at the university in a month.
“The products inside were deemed to be non-volatile and there was a safe atmosphere,” said David McKinley, the assistant deputy fire chief in Fredericton.
The building remains closed while investigators put together what happened.
McKinley said it’s too early to say if this explosion is similar to the one that happened earlier in October, but it’s of “lower magnitude” of the one that happened October 6.
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