French chemical plant blast kills 22

Rescuers picked through piles of concrete and twisted steel early today, searching for survivors - and bodies - after a huge explosion at a chemical fertilizer plant in southern France killed at least 22 people and injured 650 others.

French chemical plant blast kills 22

Rescuers picked through piles of concrete and twisted steel early today, searching for survivors - and bodies - after a huge explosion at a chemical fertilizer plant in southern France killed at least 22 people and injured 650 others.

Fifteen people were still missing, presumably buried amid tons of rubble that was once the AZF chemical plant in Toulouse.

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