It gives us no pleasure to say that an explosion took place in a 36" gas pipeline at Cleburne, 50 miles from Dallas, Texas on 8th June 2010, killing one person, and that the following day a second gas pipeline explosion occurred in the Texas Panhandle, killing two people.

If someone told you that the chance of a gas explosion occurring was 1 in a million and two such explosions occurred on two successive days, would you believe that they had correctly estimated the probability?

Ten people are thought to be missing in the explosion
Photo: BBC