(Reuters) -Multiple people are dead and several others are unaccounted for after a blast on Friday morning in Tennessee at a military explosives company, according to law enforcement.
The explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems in McEwen, about 50 miles (80 km) west of Nashville, occurred at 7:45 a.m. local time (1245 GMT), Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told a press conference.
“We do have several people at this time that’s unaccounted for,” he said. “We do have some that are deceased.”
Efforts to reach local authorities or the company were not immediately successful.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Frank McGurty)
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