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Conn. power plant blast kills several, injures 14

date: 2010-02-07 22:36:00 | Conn., power, plant, blast, kills, several,, injures

PAT EATON-ROBB The Associated Press MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - An explosion blew apart a power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines Sunday, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes for miles, officials said. Betsy Hard, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, told The Associated Press that multiple people died in the explosion at the Kleen Energy plant but she did not know how many. Fifty construction workers were in the section of the power plant where the explosion happened at 11:17 a.m., said Al Santostefano, the deputy fire marshal in Middletown, about 20 miles south of Hartford. He...

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