Deadly explosion at Texas fertilizer plant kills 15, over 150 injured

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(Reuters) - Rescue teams searched the charred rubble of homes in a small Texas city on Thursday for survivors of a fiery explosion at a nearby fertilizer plant that killed as many as 15 people, injured more than 160 and destroyed dozens of buildings.

Three to four volunteer firefighters were among the missing following the blast on Wednesday night, said Sgt. William Patrick Swanton of the Waco, Texas, police department.

Victims of Edo explosion for mass burial today

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The mass burial announced by authorities of the University of Benin

Teaching Hospital for victims of last Friday’s multiple accident on the Benin-Ore Road, in Igbogui, Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, will hold on Saturday (today).

Authorities of the hospital had arranged to bury the corpses of the

victims on Wednesday but could not, apparently due to their inability to secure enough space for about 60 corpses from the accident, that were deposited at its mortuary.

A source at the hospital said the victims would be buried at the Third Cemetery, located on Akugbe Street, off New Lagos Road, Benin.

Residents of Kachia LGA of Kaduna State thrown into a state of fear

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Residents of Kachia LGA of Kaduna state were today thrown into a state of fear as an explosion from a refuse dump behind a market in the town caused pandemonium. Information Nigeria learnt that the loud explosion was heard from a refuse dump which had earlier on been set on fire. Reacting, Chairman of Kachia, Hon. Peter Agite said that no one was hurt but that the police were still trying to decipher the cause of the explosion.  Meanwhile Kaduna state Police PRO, Aminu Lawan stated that a team of policemen from the anti-bomb squad were already on ground, trying to identify the object that caused the explosion.