Residents who were evacuated after an explosion in north-west London are finally returning to their homes.
Fifty households out of the 66 moved out after the blast on May 7 in Stanley Road, Harrow, have now been deemed safe to return by the local authority.
Residents from the other 12 homes remain in temporary accommodation while police carry out foren
sic work.
Fergus Sheppard, from Harrow Council, said: "A small number of people remain in temporary accommodation. It is difficult to say when they will return. The area is still cordoned off as police carry out forensic work and some structural work is taking place."
Those returning home are residents of Rose Court, a block of 11 flats, and other properties in Stanley Road as well as residents in neighbouring Sherwood Road.
Businessman Emmad Qureshi, 26, was killed in the blast that ripped through a number of houses shortly after 9.30pm.
A 17-year-old girl, Charlotte Anderson, who was injured in the blast, is believed to have been the target of the attack.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said a purple liquid which smelled of rotten eggs was poured through her letter box between 9am and 11am that day.
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