Rescuers in the southern U.S. state of Texas have recovered 14 bodies while continuing to search for survivors in the ruins of a small town where a fertilizer plant exploded with the force of a small earthquake.

Residents in the farm town of West, Texas, say several of those killed in the Wednesday night explosion were firefighters and paramedics who went to the industrial site as a fire that preceded the enormous blast broke out.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn, who toured the blast site Friday, … [Read More]

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Source: VOA News: Economy and Finance