Houston/IBNS: At least 18,000 cattle were killed in a “horrific” explosion that led to a massive fire at a dairy farm in the southern US state of Texas, media reports said on Thursday.
The incident also left one agricultural worker dead.
“This was the deadliest barn fire for cattle in Texas history and the investigation and cleanup may take some time,” Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement.
The explosion and fire ripped through the Southfork Dairy Farms near the town of Dimmitt in the Texas Panhandle on Monday night.
Firefighters and police rushed to the scene and “determined that one person was trapped inside,” the Castro County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook. The person was rescued and flown to a hospital in Lubbock, it said.
The cause of the explosion and fire were not immediately clear, said Miller, who described it as a “horrific event.”
