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| A huge explosion has rocked a power plant in the US state of Connecticut, with US media reporting at least two people killed and many more injured. | A huge explosion has rocked a power plant in the US state of Connecticut, with US media reporting at least two people killed and many more injured. |
| People living several miles from the plant reported that their homes were shaken by the blast at the Kleen Energy plant, being built outside Middletown. | |
| Black smoke could be seen pouring out of the plant site shortly afterwards. | Black smoke could be seen pouring out of the plant site shortly afterwards. |
| A receptionist at nearby Middlesex Hospital told local media it was receiving victims from the explosion. | A receptionist at nearby Middlesex Hospital told local media it was receiving victims from the explosion. |
| The Middletown Press newspaper said a gas pipeline had exploded at about 1130 (1630 GMT). | |
| One local resident said the shockwave felt like an earthquake. | |
| "We heard such a loud explosion and the dog was outside and I heard her bark. And then when we went outside we saw a very big explosion of bright orange flame between the two smoke stacks," she told the Associated Press news agency. | |
| "It really shook the house and everybody was scared and the kids started to cry because they did not know if the house was going to catch fire." | |
| Connecticut State Representative Matthew Lesser, who lives about the mile from the plant, told the BBC: "Our windows rattled, friends who live closer to the blast site report significant damage to houses." | |
| He added: "I sit on the energy committee and we've been following the construction of this company," he said. | |
| "As I understand it, they were testing a gas line when the explosion took place but we're not sure. Our first priority is making sure that everyone there is safe." | |
| Hundreds of people are believed to have been working at the plant, located on the Connecticut river to the south of Middletown, at the time of the explosion. | |
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