Live Updates: West Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Injures More Than 100

Live Updates: West Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Injures More Than 100

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At least 60 people are dead and 100 injured after a massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in West Texas according to CBS Dallas.

A massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. rocked the small town of West, Texas, late Wednesday night, leaving more than 100 people reported injured and many feared dead. "It was like a nuclear bomb went off," said

Shortly before 8 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, a massive explosion rocked the central Texas town of West following a fire at a fertilizer plant. Early reports are conflicting, but it appears that hundreds of people have been injured,

Residents are being evacuated Wednesday night in West, Texas, because of fears that a tank at a fertilizer tank might explode, said Ben Stratmann, a spokesman for state Sen. Brian Birdwell. Stratmann called the evacuations “a precautionary measure,”