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Monday, 26 April, 2004, 05:30 GMT 06:30 UK
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In pictures: N Korea blast
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The explosion on Thursday gouged out a massive crater - aid workers said it looked like a fireball had hit the area.
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North Korea said 76 of the 161 dead were children, killed when their school was destroyed.
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The true scale of the disaster emerged when aid workers reached the devastated town.
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Aid workers at the scene have reported that hospitals are struggling to cope without enough beds or medicine for the hundreds of victims.
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South Korea has promised to deliver emergency aid as quickly as possible as more details of the catastrophe emerge.
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Dazed residents picked through the rubble, which stretched for up to 500 metres from the blast site.
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Officials said a power line had collapsed, igniting an oil tanker and wagons laden with ammonium nitrate fertiliser.
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Aid workers estimate that at least 40% of the town was damaged by the blast.
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Residents tried to salvage what they could from the ruins - thousands were left homeless.
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This boy is collecting doorknobs found in the ruins.
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The damage to the line is a major blow to North Korea, disrupting freight traffic.
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The communist state's media kept North Koreans in the dark about the disaster for two days.
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