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Explosion at Texas fertilizer plant

Jodell88

Jodell88

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Many people are reported to be injured and others are trapped in burning buildings after an explosion at a fertiliser plant near Waco in the US state of Texas.
Firefighters, ambulances and six helicopters have been mobilised to deal with the situation.
Several buildings are reported to be on fire, some of them in neighbouring residential areas, KWTX-TV reported.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22195495


An explosion ripped through a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in West Texas, causing dozens of injuries, officials said. A hospital in Waco, Texas, has been told to anticipate 100 injured people coming in from the fertilizer plant area, an official at the medical facility said. Glenn Robinson, CEO of Hillcrest Hospital, said a field triage station was being set up on a football field near the plant some 18 miles north of Waco after the Wednesday night explosion.
"We have had a steady flow of patients coming in by ambulance as well as by private vehicles," Robinson told CNN's Anderson Cooper. He said more than a dozen injured people had been brought in by ambulances and "more than 20 -- that number is continuing to climb -- by private vehicle."
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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/texas-explosion/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
 
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Ammonium nitrate goes BOOM. It's fascinating how useful a lot of fertilizers are, for farming, bomb-making and chemical weapons.
 
Nuts.

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