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Venezuelan Refinery Explodes

DISASTER

Chavez orders probe.

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A reported 39 people have died after an explosion at Venezuela’s largest oil refinery. President Hugo Chávez has called for three national days of mourning, demanding a probe into the blast that also wounded 80.

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