A large explosion ripped through a military explosives facility in Hickman, Tennessee on Friday morning, officials said, and video from the scene showed charred debris scattered around the area.

The Hickman County Sheriff's Office said that there had been an explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems, a military explosives plant. Emergency services are responding, the office said.

CBS affiliate WTVF-TV in Nashville reported multiple people were unaccounted for after the explosion. The station broadcast images of debris strewn about the site, with damaged vehicles in a parking lot.

The Associated Press reported that the blast rattled homes miles away. Gentry Stover, a nearby resident, told the AP that it woke him up.

"I thought the house had collapsed with me inside of it," he said in a p

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