An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed five people and left six people missing, authorities said.
Officials in West Reading Borough said a number of other people were injured by the explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant, about 95 kilometres northwest of Philadelphia.
The explosion just before 5 p.m. sent a plume of black smoke into the air, destroying one building at the facility and damaging a neighbouring building that included apartments.
Chief of police Wayne Holben said the cause of the explosion remains under investigation.
“It’s pretty levelled,” West Reading Borough Mayor Samantha Kaag said of the explosion site. “The building in the front,
