An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania Friday killed two people and left nine people missing, authorities said.
Several other people were injured by the explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant, said West Reading Borough Police Department Chief of Police Wayne Holben, who did not confirm the exact number of injured.
"It's pretty levelled," West Reading Borough Mayor Samantha Kaag said of the explosion site. "The building in the front, with the church and the apartments, the explosion was so big that it moved that building four feet forward." Eight people were taken to Reading Hospital Friday evening, Tower Health spokeswoman Jessica Bezler said.
Kaag said people were asked to move back about a block in each direction from the site of the explosion but no evacuations were ordered.
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