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Authorities launch criminal investigation at the Connecticut power plant explosion

Feb, 09 2010


(Connecticut) -- Authorities looking for the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction launched a criminal investigation Monday, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence as the cause.

The powerful explosion blew apart large swaths of the nearly completed 620-megawatt Kleen Energy plant as workers for the construction company O Industries Inc. were purging a gas line Sunday morning.
 
The blast tore apart sheet metal that covered the plant's sides and left parts of the complex so unstable that rescuers were unable to work Monday because of the danger of collapse.

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