McEwen, Tennessee: A blast levelled an explosives plant in rural Tennessee on Friday, leaving behind a mass of twisted metal, burnt-out shells of cars and at least 18 people missing and feared dead, authorities said.

“There’s nothing to describe. It’s gone,” Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said of the blast site at Accurate Energetic Systems, which supplies and researches explosives for the military.

Smoke fills the air as debris covers the ground and vehicles after a powerful blast ripped through a military explosives manufacturing plant in Hickman County, Tennessee. Credit: AP

He said it was one of the worst scenes he had ever seen and especially gut-wrenching because he knows three families connected to the tragedy. Davis said multiple people were killed, but he declined to

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