BREAKING: Grain Bin Explosion At Indiana Cooperative Kills One

An explosion at a fertilizer plant in northwest Indiana has killed one person.

The Sheriff’s Department confirms that one person was killed in an explosion in Union Mills, IN.

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Deputy Neil Lachmund says all other people are accounted for after the explosion Monday afternoon at the Union Mills Co-op. It’s about 50 miles (80 kilometres) southeast of Chicago. Lachmund says two other people are being checked for injuries.

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The blast follows one less than two weeks ago at a chemical plant in Louisiana that makes fertilizer. That blast killed one worker and injured seven others.

An April 17 fertilizer plant blast in West, Texas, killed 15 people.

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