Fatal Blast Hits Brazil Space Hopes

World | August 23, 2003, Saturday // 00:00

About 20 people have been killed in an explosion which destroyed a Brazilian space rocket just days before its scheduled launch, military officials have said. A spokesman for the Alcantara base in the north-eastern state of Maranhao said no wounded had been found. One of the rocket's four motors caught fire, triggering an explosion which caused the launchpad to collapse as technicians were carrying out final tests. The explosion was so intense that the exact number of victims and their identities have been difficult to establish.

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