Explosion at urea plant kills 29.(Brief Article)

An explosion at TotalFinaElf's AZF plant in Toulouse, France, has killed at least 29 people.

The plant makes chemicals, fertilisers and industrial explosives, including urea and ammonium nitrate, which is thought to have caused the explosion.

The plant produces 320,000t/a of urea. Christine Francis, an analyst from fertiliser consultancy Fertecon, said 'The loss of …