LNG Explosion Death Toll Now at 27

At least 27 workers are now confirmed dead and 74 injured when a liquefied natural gas(LNG) plant blew up at Algeria's llargest refinery complex on the Mediterranean coast, officials reported.

It is believed an accident at a gas boiler caused the blast in the port city of Skikda, 310 miles east of the capital, Algiers, on Monday evening, destroying at least three LNG plants.