Texas fertiliser plant blast: death toll could rise to 40, says mayor
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2015-05-15
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The mayor of the Texas town devastated by a fertiliser plant explosion on Wednesday evening has said as many as 35 people could have died.
West Mayor Tommy Muska said that 10 first responders had perished in the blast and around 25 more people may have died in nearby homes that were destroyed by the explosion.
According to Reuters, "police initially put the death toll at up to 15, but later on Thursday Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Jason Reyes told reporters that while the explosion had been deadly, it is not yet known how many had been killed.
Agents with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates industrial chemical accidents, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are on the scene of the blast, which was the strength of magnitude 2.1 earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Fire-fighters had been battling a fire at the plant on Wednesday night for about 20 minutes before the blast rocked the town of 2,700 people about 20 miles (32 km) north of Waco. Three to four volunteer Fire-fighters were still missing, police said.
The blast destroyed 60 to 80 houses, reduced a 50-unit apartment complex to what one local official called "a skeleton standing up" and left a horrific landscape of burned-out buildings and blackened rubble.
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West Mayor Tommy Muska said that 10 first responders had perished in the blast and around 25 more people may have died in nearby homes that were destroyed by the explosion.
According to Reuters, "police initially put the death toll at up to 15, but later on Thursday Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Jason Reyes told reporters that while the explosion had been deadly, it is not yet known how many had been killed.
Agents with the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a federal agency that investigates industrial chemical accidents, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are on the scene of the blast, which was the strength of magnitude 2.1 earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Fire-fighters had been battling a fire at the plant on Wednesday night for about 20 minutes before the blast rocked the town of 2,700 people about 20 miles (32 km) north of Waco. Three to four volunteer Fire-fighters were still missing, police said.
The blast destroyed 60 to 80 houses, reduced a 50-unit apartment complex to what one local official called "a skeleton standing up" and left a horrific landscape of burned-out buildings and blackened rubble.
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