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Seven people have been confirmed dead and all victims are presumed accounted for after an explosion rocked a historic chocolate factory in West Reading on Friday night.
Seven people were killed and several others wounded in the powerful blast at the R.M Palmer Co. plant in West Reading.
Several others were injured by the explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, officials said. The cause of the blast about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia remains under investigation.
The West Reading Borough council is expected to vote today to extend a disaster declaration that was put into effect by the mayor after Friday's explosion at the R.M. Palmer Company candy factory.
Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly explosion that leveled part of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory are facing an even more difficult task as they comb through wreckage that was picked apart and moved around during the weekend search for victims and survivors.