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Six Dead in Ga. Explosion

Posted Feb 8, 08 12:13 PM CST in US 

(Newser) – Investigators have found six bodies within the Georgia sugar refinery that exploded last night, CNN reports. Six people had been missing since the blast, which injured more than 60. The bodies were found in the tunnels beneath the refinery, which hold waist-high water. The victims likely ran into the tunnels to take shelter from the flames, the state fire commissioner said.

The likely cause of the catastrophe was a rare sugar powder mishap, plant officials say. The spectacular explosion, in a Savannah suburb, shook houses in South Carolina and shot a fireball into the air “five or six times higher than the tallest tree,” a police spokesman said. “It was like walking into hell,” said one Red Cross volunteer.

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Smoke billows from behind the main plant of the Imperial Sugar Company during a fire at the plant on the Savannah River Thursday Feb. 7, 2008 in Port Wentworth, Ga. An explosion and fire at a sprawling...   (Associated Press)
Smoke billows from behind the main plant of the Imperial Sugar Company during a fire at the plant near the Savannah River Thursday Feb. 7, 2008 in Port Wentworth, Ga. An explosion shook a sugar refinery...   (Associated Press)
Map locates Savannah, Ga., near where an explosion at a sugar refinery injured dozens; 1c x 2 1/4 inches; 46.5 mm x 57.2 mm   (Associated Press)
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