Two children and an adult were injured in a suspected gas explosion at a terrace house in south Wales. Neighbouring houses and cars were also damaged and the area was evacuated following the incident on Wednesday afternoon. The three-bedroom home’s roof was blown off and its walls were torn away. Five ambulance hazardous area response teams – who are trained to go into incident “hot zones” – were sent to the scene along with the Wales air ambulance. Four fire crews were also dispatched. One patient was taken by road ambulance to Morriston Hospital in Swansea, while the other two were transported by air ambulance to Southmead hospital, Bristol. South Wales police asked people to avoid Church Road in Seven Sisters, near Neath. The force said: “South Wales police received numerous reports of an explosion at a property at 2.05pm. “A number of properties and vehicles in the street have been damaged and the area has been evacuated. Three people, one adult and two children, have been injured in the incident.” Neighbour Karen Leyshon, 59, said: “It is amazing no-one was killed. It is a bomb site.” Another neighbour, Eileen Pugh, 87, said: “It is like something from the movies. There are helicopters overhead and it is just a terrible mess.” Leighton Williams, a builder working on a property nearby, said he heard a loud noise and felt the ground shake. “Everything shook. The whole house has gone. It was like something from a film,” he said. Sarah Burgess, Wales & West Utilities Gas emergency service manager for Neath, said: “We were called to reports of an explosion at a property in the Church Road area and immediately sent a team of emergency engineers to the scene. “On arrival we found that there had been severe structural damage to the property and emergency services were in control of the scene. “We are working with the emergency services to make the area safe and to investigate the cause of the explosion.” First Cymru Buses said that services in the area were being disrupted because of a gas explosion.