A massive explosion has ripped through a fertiliser plant in West, Texas, possibly leaving 60-70 people dead including first responders. Many more people are injured, with reports the explosion 'levelled' buildings in a five-block radius, including a school and a nursing home.
Gulf war veteran Paul L. Manigrasso told KWTX he felt the blast in Waxahachie.
“Based on my Naval experience...we knew immediately what it was, but cannot believe it occurred 40 miles away,” he said.
"It was a small fire and then water got sprayed the ammonia nitrate, and it exploded just like the Oklahoma City bomb," Jason Shelton, a clerk at the Czech Best Western Hotel in West, told The Dallas Morning News.
"I live about a 300 metres from it and it blew my screen door off and my back windows. There's houses levelled that were right next to it.”
Bill Bohannan, who was visiting his parents in West, near the plant, witnessed the explosion.
"It knocked us into the car ... Every house within about four blocks is blown apart," he told the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Crystal Anthony told the paper that a nearby nursing home, apartment complex and West Middle School had also caught fire. Anthony said she and her daughter were almost knocked down several blocks from the explosion.
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I wonder if it's in anyway connected to the Boston bomb blast?
