Huge blast rocks Texas oil plant
`A huge explosion at an oil refinery in Texas has killed at least 14 and injured more than 70.
The blast took place at a facility owned by British-owned company BP in Texas City. [..]
Texas City resident Mike Martin described “a real loud explosion, like a sonic boom”.
“It shook the pictures bad enough to where it knocked them off the wall. And it frightened me, so I jumped out of bed.”
Judith Mantell, 62, told the Houston Chronicle the blast lifted her vehicle off the ground at her home five miles (8km) away.’
