Officials in Jersey say that three people have died and up to a dozen are missing after a large explosion in a three-story block of flats.

It happened just before four o'clock in the morning in the built-up harbour area of St Helier.

Authorities described the scale of the destruction as "devastating", warning that more fatalities could yet be found.

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