Nineteen people are dead or missing after a massive blast obliterated a building at a Tennessee explosives facility on Friday, authorities said.

The blast occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems, LLC, on Friday morning. Advertisement

“I can tell you that we’re missing 19 souls,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said at a news conference Friday afternoon.

The blast rattled nearby homes and set off smaller explosions, local officials say.

The explosion, which happened around 7:45 a.m. local time, was a “devastating blast,” but responders were able to secure the scene by late morning, Davis said earlier Friday.

“We do have several people at this time that’s unaccounted for,” Davis said. “We do have some folks; we can confirm that we do have some that are deceased.”

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