Farts cause explosion

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 MORE than 18,000 cows were killed and one person injured after a fireball explosion ripped through a family dairy farm.

The blast at South Fork Dairy near Dimmitt, Texas, on Monday has been dubbed the deadliest cattle incident ever recorded in the US.

Officials suspect a machinery malfunction in the facility may have ignited methane gas - which is released by cows when they fart or burp - triggering the devastating eruption.

A subsequent fire then quickly began to spread throughout the holding pens, where thousands of dairy cows were crammed in.

The helpless animals were waiting to be milked at around 7.20pm when the flames began to engulf them.

The enormous blast has proved costly in more ways than one for the family who owns the farm, as the loss of the cattle is said to have set them back an eye-watering £28million.

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