08/05/12 17:50:41 IdwrYdVZ0
Gang of girls 'blew up house with home-made bomb over row about boy'
A gang of teenage girls may have blown up a house with a home-made liquid bomb, which killed a man in a neighbouring
property, after arguing with another girl about a love rival.
Purple liquid was poured through the letterbox of the Victorian house before the an explosion destroyed three houses.
Their intended victim, Charlotte Anderson, was caught in the blast and was rushed to intensive care suffering with severe burns.
Ten hours earlier Miss Anderson had phoned police to say a gang of girls aged 16 and 17 was causing trouble outside her home,
in Harrow. They were directing abuse, about a boy, at Miss Anderson's ground floor flat.
Witnesses said they saw someone pouring a "purple, smelly liquid" through the letterbox of the house.
Experts say the liquid could have vaporized and caused the explosion, which killed Emad Qureshi, 26, who was at home with his
parents in a neighbouring house at the time of the blast.
He was crushed to death by falling rubble.
Miss Anderson was pulled from her wrecked flat by a neighbour and she was rushed to hospital, where her condition was
described as "non life-threatening".
Scotland Yard launched a murder investigation and is hunting the girl gang.
A police source said the liquid could have been made using a "recipe" found on the internet
DCI Colin Sutton said: "Our major line of inquiry is that this liquid caused the explosion and that the explosion was an attempt to
murder this young woman."
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