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Plant Explosion Texas
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Photos: Explosion at West, Texas fertilizer plant

Buildings burn after blast, seniors’ home evacuated
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An overnight explosion at a fertilizer plant in the small town of West, Texas leveled homes and businesses and injured at lest 160 people. It is still too soon to tell how many lives were lost in the blast, Mayor Tommy Mouska told reporters Thursday morning.

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