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Blast in US fertilizer plant, several injured
Thursday April 18, 2013 10:44:32 AM,
Agencies
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Houston:
An explosion occurred at a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in the
US state of Texas and may have caused dozens of injuries, reported
Xinhua citing a US media report.
The explosion happened around 7.50 p.m. at the plant some 28 km
north of the Texas city of Waco, according to CNN.
A hospital in Waco has been told to anticipate 100 injured people
coming from the fertilizer plant area, a hospital official was
quoted as saying.
Debby Marak told The Associated
Press that when she finished teaching her religion class on
Wednesday night, she noticed a lot of smoke coming from the area
across town near the plant, which is near a nursing home.
She said she drove over to see what
was happening, and that when she got out of her car two boys ran
toward her screaming that the authorities told them to leave
because the plant was going to explode. She said she drove about a
block before the blast happened.
"It was like being in a tornado," the 58-year-old said by phone.
"Stuff was flying everywhere. It blew out my windshield."
"It was like the whole earth shook."
She drove 10 blocks and called her husband and asked him to come
get her. When they got to their home about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers)
south of town, her husband told her what he'd seen: a huge
fireball that rose like "a mushroom cloud."
More than two hours after the blast, there were still fires
smoldering in what was left of the plant and others burning in
nearby buildings.
In aerial footage from Dallas' NBC
affiliate, WDFW, dozens of emergency vehicles could be seen
amassed at the scene. Entry into the town of West was slow-going,
as the roads were jammed with emergency vehicles rushing in to
help out.
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