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Graphic video footage from a spectator filming the initial fire at a distance.
CHICAGO (AFP) - Some 60 to 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured by an explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas, local media reported, citing the local emergency manager.
The report could not be immediately verified by AFP, but KWTX television cited West Emergency Management Services Director George Smith as confirming the death toll.
The explosion comes as the United States was on edge as it pieces through deadly explosions that hit the Boston marathon on Monday, followed by letters, apparently poisoned with ricin, sent to President Barack Obama and a US senator.
Eerie - twenty year anniversary of the Waco siege shootout and fire tomorrow. Some spooky stuff going down in the USA at the moment.
Thats a huge explosion.
Judging by the orientation of the buildings and the location of the explosion, I reckon he was filming it from the West Independent School District carpark which would be 200m to 250m from the explosion.
A fire at a fertilizer plant which then went bang in a big way is a bit like having a fire at an oil refinery or gas works which then goes bang in a big way.
If there's anything suspicious (hypothetically) then it would most likely be with the starting of the initial fire rather than with the explosion as such. They wouldn't have needed to use bombs etc to bring it about since there's already plenty of explosive material at the plant in normal operations so just setting it on fire creates the very real prospect of a disaster.
That said, quite likely it's just an accident. Fires do happen from time to time, especially at places where there's lots of flammable stuff around.
Eerie - twenty year anniversary of the Waco siege shootout and fire tomorrow. Some spooky stuff going down in the USA at the moment.
Similar thoughts went through my mind. Hope these two recent events are not the beginning of some highly orchestrated terrorist plan. The anniversary of the Waco siege seems too unusual to be pure coincidence.Was thinking the same thing!! Its a bit too coincidental...
Yes.
Google maps express.
Ah so... A virtual visit.
West Independent School District, North Reagan Street, West, TX, United States
Graphic video footage from a spectator filming the initial fire at a distance.
Similar thoughts went through my mind. Hope these two recent events are not the beginning of some highly orchestrated terrorist plan. The anniversary of the Waco siege seems too unusual to be pure coincidence.
I've heard several mentions of this in ABC Radio news and current affairs bulletins.Of course there has just been a large earthquake on the Iran/Pakistan border which has left 19,000 people homeless in Pakistan alone and that gets largely ignored by the mainstream media
I thought that myself.Does anyone know if the boy or girl talking in the background to this video regained his/her hearing? It was absolutely terrifying for father and child, even though they seemed quite a distance away.
Wouldn't t hey have state of the art fire systems at a plant like that...our fire systems we're state of the art, and we had little explosive material on site...
this whole week has been just plain weird in the US...
CanOz
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