NATION : 2 Die in Fireworks Plant Blasts
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COLUMBUS, Miss. — Explosions felt up to 30 miles away leveled a small fireworks plant today, killing two people, authorities said.
An hour after the first explosion at 9 a.m., witnesses said there were still minor explosions at the Mid-South Fireworks plant six miles southeast of this east-central Mississippi town.
“We have not found the bodies yet, but we are sure there are two,” Don Harris of the Lowndes County medical examiner’s office said at late morning. “We have just now been able to put water to it.” He said two people were injured.
The plant usually employs about 20, but that increases to about 35 this time of the year. But at the time of the explosion, only four people were believed to be in the plant, witnesses said.
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