EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- A man and three children were killed in a late-night house explosion as a woman pulled from the burning home tried to go back in to rescue them, according to witnesses.
Two other adults and a child were wounded in Friday's blast, and investigators were checking early Saturday to see if a gas leak may have been at fault.
``You could see the flames coming out of the roof through all the openings, all of the openings of the house. The windows, the doors,'' Maria De Santiago, a neighbor, told the El Paso Times in Saturday's editions.
The dead were listed as children aged 4, 6 and 12, along with their father. Fire officials said an 8-year-old boy, a 35-year-old woman and a 55-year-old woman were sent to hospitals with burns.
De Santiago, 40, said a woman who was pulled out of the burning home attempted to get back inside as neighbors tried to hold her back.
``She was yelling, 'Los ninos, los ninos' ('the children'),'' said De Santiago, who lives across the street.
She said a man rushed into the house and came out burned.
Several nearby houses were ordered evacuated by firefighters. But by early Saturday, residents were allowed to return to their homes. Utility employees cut off natural gas to the property, fire officials said.
