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HUMPHREYS COUNTY, Tenn. -- Nineteen people are dead or missing after a massive blast obliterated a building at a Tennessee explosives facility on Friday, authorities said — a “mass detonation” so significant that it rattled homes miles away.

The early-morning explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems, which manufactures military and demolitions explosives, left charred debris and mangled vehicles across a vast area.

?The sheriff said there are fatalities but did not want to declare a death toll yet — just that “we’re missing 19 souls.”

“I always wish for the best,” Davis said. “Is there a possibility that somebody might be injured somewhere, or somebody that we don’t know about? Yes.”

Davis described the aftermath of the explosion as “the most devastating scene th

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