Gas Pipeline Blast Kills at Least 3

A gas pipeline about 50 miles south of Dallas exploded this afternoon, killing at least three people and sending an enormous ball of fire and smoke into the air. " People were reporting seeing a fireball and their windows shaking like from a sonic boom, " the county commissioner told the Dallas Morning News. "We've got an unknown number of people still unaccounted for," the local fire chief told CNN.

Workers using a digging machine punctured a 36-inch line at around 2:40 local time, causing the ground to shake violently. "For about 10 minutes, it was so loud that it was like there was an 18-wheeler rumbling in your driveway," a local resident told the AP.
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