A powerful explosion that ripped through a military explosives facility in Tennessee left no survivors, officials said.
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency later confirmed the number of missing people went from 18 to 16 after authorities verified that two people previously believed to be on site were alive and not at the facility at the time of the explosion. There were no updates regarding fatalities or injuries as of Saturday afternoon.
Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said at a press conference Saturday that officials were working on the assumption that all of the people at the site were dead.
“We’re only working remains,” he said, adding that teams will enter to start conducting a rapid DNA search.
The explosion on Friday morning left multiple people dead and more than a dozen others missing, officials said. A law enforcement source on Saturday told CBS News the number of missing people may continue drop as they work to confirm whether some people initially believed to be among the missing were not actually in the building at the time of the blast.
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