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A blast occurred in the Clairton Coke Works factory on Monday near Pittsburgh. Nevertheless, Rescuers are looking for at least two people who have disappeared among the rubble.
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An explosion in the steelworks made dozens of injured and several missing, the authorities said on August 11.
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An explosion occurred in a coke coal factory in Pennsylvania on Monday, causing “several dozen injured,” said local officials.
State governor Josh Shapiro published on X a message evoking “an explosion that occurred this morning” in the Clairton Coke Works factory. Similarly, owned by US Steel, some 25 km from Pittsburgh.
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“There is an ongoing research. rescue operation, dozens of injured, and according to the police, there is at least one person who has disappeared,” Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman wrote on the same network, who says he went there.
Questioned by CBS, the mayor of the city Richard Lattanzi also talks about several injured, some “perhaps seriously”.
People always trapped
Videos on social networks. not authenticated by AFP, showed firefighters fighting fire in front of a ripped industrial building, under a thick plume of white smoke.
According to several media, people were still under rubble caused by the explosion.
Located on the Monongahela river, the factory is the largest coke coal factory in the United States. Solicited by AFP as to the origin of the accident, Us Steel had not reacted in the early afternoon.
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