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Firefighter conduct search and rescue of an apartment Thursday destroyed by an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, on Wednesday night.
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By JOHN L. MONE and MICHAEL BRICK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 18, 2013 - 11:20 am
 

WEST, Texas — Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris or bodies of the dead. The accident killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others.

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