As many as 19 people are missing and feared dead after a “devastating blast” leveled a Tennessee bomb factory Friday, according to officials. The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local time at the Accurate Energetic Systems plant at the Hickman-Humphreys County line, west of Nashville.

Following a major explosion at a bomb factory on Friday, 16 people are presumed to be dead, officials confirmed Saturday. Recovery teams spent the weekend clinging to hope of finding any of the missing alive, but on Saturday evening Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said “it’s safe” to assume they are deceased, per BBC.

BAYTOWN, Texas -- Authorities in Texas said they were investigating a "major industrial accident" at an Exxon Mobil plant in Baytown, Texas. "Some injuries have been reported. Please avoid the area," the Harris County Sheriff's Office said on Twitter.

The updated model can carry weapons armed with a 2 tonne payload and use artificial intelligence (AI) for more precise targeting.

Interior Minister John Reimberg accused Ecuadorian gang Los Lobos, which is designated as a “foreign terrorist organisation” by the United States, and former rebels of the now-defunct movement Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, with ties to the gang, of being behind the blasts.

The detonation of explosive devices on two bridges in Ecuador early on Wednesday was retaliation for a major military operation against illegal miners, the country's interior minister said.

Explosions and heavy gunfire have erupted near Somalia’s presidential palace in an attack by a militant group targeting a major prison.