Fire rages after explosions at fuel storage depot

A HUGE fire was raging in southern England last night after a series of explosions ripped through an oil storage depot in what is thought to be the largest incident of its kind in peacetime Europe.

Miraculously, only two people were seriously injured among 43 casualties, after flames shot hundreds of feet into the sky after the blasts at the Buncefield depot, near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.

The force of the incident could be heard up to 100 miles away sparking fears of a terrorist attack or a plane crash.