【TOMO雙語爆】布魯克林大樓爆炸 起因疑自殺

出版時間 2015/10/08

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上週六(10月3日)紐約布魯克林一幢大樓發生嚴重爆炸,調查人員本懷疑是瓦斯漏氣。

然而現在警方認為,造成大樓倒塌的兩波強力爆炸,起因為自殺。

Francisca Figueroa住在布魯克林市鎮公園區(Borough Park)這棟公寓的二樓,並在一樓開了一間美髮店。

這位48歲的母親在網上發布過自殺的想法,據《紐約郵報》報導,她上週四才被驅逐出公寓。

當局表示,Francisca可能是用美髮店中的多種化學劑,引發兩波強烈爆炸。導致大樓被夷為平地,她與另一名女住戶皆喪生。

調查人員的焦點,集中在一個被強行拆下的爐子上,後來發現Francisca家中瓦斯已被切斷,由於她未繳瓦斯費。

這起爆炸造成她和三樓住戶-64歲的Ligia Puello兩人喪生,另有13人受傷。

Francisca身後遺下一雙十幾歲的兒女,而調查人員和其親人都百思不解,為何這位鄰居口中「甜美、親切、常獨來獨往」的女子,會選擇如此慘烈的結局。


英文原文:

When this three-story Brooklyn building exploded on Saturday, October 3, investigators suspected a gas leak. 

Now, however, cops believe two powerful blasts that brought down the building was a dramatic suicide.

Francisca Figueroa lived on the second floor of a building in Brooklyn’s Borough Park and owned a hair salon on the ground floor.

The 48-year-old mother had posted suicidal thoughts online, with the New York Post reporting she’d been ordered evicted from her apartment last Thursday.

Authorities say Figueroa may have assembled various chemical products from her salon and used them to fuel the two powerful blasts that obliterated the building, killing both herself and another woman.

An improperly removed stove in the apartment had been investigator’s focus until it was found Figueroa’s gas had been shut off as she hadn’t paid her gas bill.

She and third floor resident Ligia Puello, 64, both died in the explosions. 13 others were injured.

Figueroa leaves behind a teenage daughter and son, while investigators and relatives 

struggle to understand why a person described by neighbors as a ‘sweet, kind woman who kept to herself’ may’ve chosen such a violent end.

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