11 Dead In Indonesia After Pipeline Blast Hits Area Flooded By Mud Volcano From Well - AFP

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Rescuers continued searching Saturday for two more people believed to be missing in a deadly gas pipeline blast near the site of a huge mud leak on Indonesia's Java island, police said. The explosion late Wednesday in East Java's Sidoarjo district, where hot mud spewing out of an exploratory gas well has submerged large areas, has so far claimed 11 lives.

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The powerful blast shot flames 500 metres (1,600 feet) high, bursting a dyke built to contain mud which has inundated Sidoarjo district near the city of Surabaya. The pipeline, about two meters underground, burst after subsidence around the gas well.

Mud spewing from the well since May has covered large swathes of land and forced more than 12,000 people to flee their homes.

A system of dykes is holding back the steaming mud, which continues to bubble from the earth at a rate of some 120,000 cubic metres each day.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Search_For_Missing_People_In_Indonesian_Gas_Blast_Continues_999.html

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1. dang, that mud is still flowing??

good grief :scared:

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2. Don't worry. It's not radioactive.

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3. so what? it's still a terrible mess n/t

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4. The world only cares about cases like this if they involve radioactive people.

Do you think this case will be recalled ten years from now? Ten weeks?

Shit, Karen Silkwood drove off the road high on 'Ludes more than 30 years ago and everybody still knows her name.