NEW YORK: Nineteen people are dead or missing after a devastating blast destroyed a building at a military explosives plant in the US state of Tennessee, local officials said.
"I can tell you that we're missing 19 souls, " Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said at a news conference Friday afternoon, Xinhua news agency reported quoting CNN.
Speaking to reporters, Davis described the scene as "one of the most devastating" sites he'd ever seen, adding "there's nothing to describe, it's gone." He said there's a half square mile of debris from the explosion.