{"id":72937,"date":"2025-10-12T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/72937\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:40:08","slug":"eighteen-feared-dead-in-us-after-blast-at-tennessee-explosives-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/72937\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen feared dead in US after blast at Tennessee explosives plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>11 Oct, 2025 10:48 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Nineteen people were missing and an unspecified number were killed after a massive blast tore through a US military explosives plant on October 10, prompting emergency responders to scour the ravaged site for any survivors, officials said. Photo \/ Satellite Image \u00a92025  Vantor, AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Eighteen people are presumed dead after a huge blast at an explosives factory in Tennessee, officials said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cWe can assume that they are deceased at this time,\u201d Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told a news conference, referring to 18 people missing since the explosion  yesterday in the town<br \/>\n         of Bucksnort.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The factory owned by Accurate Energetic Systems made explosives for both military and demolition purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">The blast destroyed an entire building at the plant\u2019s large campus, shook homes  kilometres away and sent debris flying, news reports said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PIBTdnNRHybHVehKG\" style=\"display:none\">Davis said DNA testing will be used to identify remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 11 Oct, 2025 10:48 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1975,45290,690,57409,57410,13741,13994,42,8482,78,43,10711,384,4885,57411,3048,12214,1865,40,38,41,39,3040],"class_list":["post-72937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-at","tag-blast","tag-dead","tag-eighteen","tag-explosives","tag-factory","tag-feared","tag-headlines","tag-huge","tag-in","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-people","tag-plant","tag-presumed","tag-said","tag-tennessee","tag-today","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}