Five people were still missing on Saturday afternoon and two casualties have been reported by authorities, following the explosion of a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania Friday evening.

The R.M. Palmer Co. plant saw one of its buildings completely obliterated in the blast, and an apartment building next door was damaged in the explosion. The cause of the blast is being investigated.

Emergency workers searched the wreckage of the exploded chocolate plant for survivors.

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