More than 100 people may have been injured and two killed when a massive explosion was take place at Middletown, which homeowners more than 10 miles away mistook for an earthquake, blew up a power plant being built on the Connecticut River in the southern section of Middletown at about 11 a.m. Sunday.
Medical rescue personnel said four of the 100 were injured, four critically, and two were dead at the site of the Kleen Energy Systems plant on River Road.

“There are bodies everywhere,” a witness said. Another witness said many victims may be buried in rubble.

Middletown deputy fire marshal Al Santostefano said at 1:15 p.m. there were “confirmed fatalities” but that he did not know who many. He said there were at least 50 construction workers on the site.

Witnesses and authorities said as many as 100 people may have been injured and two killed when a massive explosion, which homeowners more than 10 miles away mistook for an earthquake, blew up a power plant being built on the Connecticut River in the southern section of Middletown at about 11 a.m. Sunday.

Dozens of ambulances and two medevac helicopters responded to the scene in the town of  Middletown, about 150 kilometres north-east of New York City. An estimated 100 firefighters had brought the flames under control by 1:30 pm, the Hartford Courant reported. Medical rescue personnel told the Courant that at least four of the 100 in the plant were critically injured, another four were injured, in addition to the two dead at the Kleen Energy Systems plant. The company could not be reached for comment. Middletown deputy fire marshal Al Santostefano told the Courant it was “possible that there might be people trapped in the rubble.” Rescue crews were “in search and rescue mode” by 1 pm Sunday and were trying to see “if there are any survivors.”"There are bodies everywhere,” a witness was quoted as saying. The local television station WQAD said that the blast was so powerful that people felt it 20 kilometres away, many thinking that an earthquake had struck.