A storage building at the Milan Army ammunition plant 90 miles outside Memphis, TN was rocked by a massive explosion today, critically injuring one
person and leaving two others missing. FBI officials are on the scene, and they indicate that the explosion appears to have been accidental. Workers
were moving barrels of flamabale material when, according to witnesses, one of the barrels "flashed."
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Mayor George Killebrew said one person was airlifted to a hospital, while authorities searched for two others caught in the explosion at the Milan
Army Ammunition plant. The cause was not immediately determined, but FBI agent George Bolds had been told by authorities that the blast appeared to be
an accident.
"As far as we know, they were moving some barrels of some sort of volatile material and one of the barrels flashed," Bolds said.
Killebrew said the storage building housed ammunition and was located in an isolated area of the plant. Three to four people typically work there at a
time, he said.
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The plant manufactures medium-caliber ammo and produces the cartridges used in grenade machine guns.
