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人才资讯网英语资源频道为大家整理的china daily 双语新闻：美国得州化肥厂发生爆炸 约有70人死亡，供大家阅读参考。
德克萨斯州一个名叫韦科的小镇发生了化肥厂爆炸案。根据哥伦比亚广播公司的报道，爆炸目前有造成70余人死亡，其中包括5个消防人员，1个警察，还有12个人尚未脱离生命危险，另有上百人受伤，近百间房屋被摧毁。这将是美国历史上最为严重的一次化工企业爆炸事故。目前，爆炸原因尚未查明。
Fiery explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant in a small town north of Waco sent about 120 people to hospitals, destroyed dozens of homes and businesses and prompted widespread evacuations.
Area hospitals reported treating slightly more than 120 people injured by the blasts in West, Texas. Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Gail Scarborough earlier put the number of injured near the plant even higher -- 200 people, 40 of them critically.
The blast also has caused fatalities, said another official with the Texas Department of Public Safety, though as of 1 a.m. ET he did not immediately know how many.
"We have tremendous amount of injuries, probably over 100 injuries at this time," said State Trooper D.L. Wilson of the Texas Department of Public Safety. "At this time, we do have confirmed fatalities."
Besides the injuries, 75 to 100 houses and business were completely destroyed in and around the plant, Scarborough said.
"It"s total chaos," West City Councilwoman Cheryl Marak said, according to ABC News Radio. "There"s ambulances and fire trucks and police cars from everywhere."
An official with Hill Regional Hospital in Hillsboro, Texas, reported the facility treated 66 patients, 38 with serious injuries.
Baptist Hillcrest Medical Center in Waco had treated 29 wounded, said the center"s CEO, Brett Esrock, and was expecting 20 more.
"They are coming in ambulances cars, vans, pretty much anything," Esrock said.
Most of Baptist Hillcrest"s patients had minor-to-moderate injuries such as cuts, abrasions, broken bones and respiratory distress -- though there was at least one critical injury, Esrock said.
Another patient was being treated at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, the hospital said.
Marak told ABC Ne
ews affiliate WFAA that the blast killed her pets and heavily damaged the local middle school.
Other witnesses reported heavy damage to a nursing home and a middle school in the area.
"I was watching the flames and then it was just like a huge, huge explosion and two houses, I mean, it demolished both of those," Marak said, according to ABC News Radio. "I think everything around us is pretty much just gone."
Keith Williams, a local resident, said his house also was completely destroyed, according to ABC News Radio.
"All the ceilings are out," Williams said. "The windows are out. The brick"s knocked off the house. My big garage out back is half blowed in."
He also saw "people with all their houses tore up across the street from me, on each side of me."
The West Fertilizer Plant exploded around 8 p.m. local time, and there were subsequent explosions around 10 p.m., WFAA reported. The cause of the explosions was unconfirmed, but a dispatcher was heard warning crews to move away from chemicals in unexploded tanks.
Wilson described the initial blast as "massive -- just like Iraq, just like the Murray Building in Oklahoma City. The same kind of hydrous exploded, so you can imagine what kind of damage we"re looking at."
Firefighters initially went to the scene of a structure fire at the plant.
"It was smoldering still and it still is active," Wilson said in the early morning hours. "You know other ingredients [are] at the facility, so we don"t want that to explode again. So right now we can"t get firefighters in there. We"re worried about people right now, not property.
"We"re gonna go back in and do another house-to-house search and see if anybody else, victims, are in the houses," Wilson added. "That"s going to be going on all night."
The town of West has a population of about 2,800.