RT
April 18, 2013
It felt ‘like a bomb went off’, those who saw the deadly Texas explosion ripping through a fertilizer plant say. A video taken by a father several meters from the scene captures his child screaming ‘Daddy, please get out of here, I can’t hear!’
The blast injured over 172 people; dozens are feared dead. The explosion leveled local residents’ homes, shaking doors and sending shockwaves across the community.
“It was like a nuclear bomb went off,” a man who was looking for a lost relative on Willie Nelson Road told KVUE.
“There was a huge shock wave,” said Mark Licknovsky, who works at the Czech Stop less than one mile away, told the station. “That’s when we knew something was serious.”
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