Deadly Blast El Paso Natural Gas Co. employees assess the damage at the site of a natural gas pipeline explosion, south of Carslbad, N.M., that killed 11 people on a weekend camping and fishing outing along the Pecos River.
Witnesses describe the blast.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators on the scene of Saturday's early morning blast found at least three sections of pipe blown from the ground. A metallurgist will remove a portion of the damaged pipe to bring back to the NTSB's Washington lab for further study, a spokesman said. This was a very major tragedy. Federal, state and local authorities are investigating the cause of the natural gas pipeline explosion in southeast New Mexico, which killed six adults and five children and left one in critical condition. One man who had been hospitalized in Lubbock, Texas since Saturday died today.