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No survivors found after explosion levels Tennessee explosives plant.

Sheriff says all workers at Accurate Energetic Systems are presumed dead.

Investigators search for cause as Bucksnort community grieves.

Authorities said Saturday that the explosion at an explosives plant in rural Tennessee, which leveled the facility and was felt miles away, left no survivors.

What they're saying:

Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said during a news conference that officials were working on the assumption that all of the people at the site were dead. The total number of people who died was unclear, as was the cause of the blast.

Davis had said earlier there were 18 people missing.

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"We’ve recovered no survivors," Davis said.

19 missing in Tennessee explosives plant

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