1PM NEWS UPDATE: NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Here’s Paul Lobb with a news update.

• Seven people, including a child, have been taken to hospital after a gas explosion ripped through a food court in Sydney’s busy Chinatown district.
• Three days of national mourning has been declared in Brazil after one of the country’s top soccer teams was virtually wiped out in a horrific plane crash in Colombia.
• And a fisherman has reeled in a group of thankful schoolies, who were stuck on a flotilla of inflatable animals, half a kilometre off Victoria’s Phillip Island.

NBN News tonight at six.