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    Venezuela refinery fire

    •August 28, 2012
    • Fires continue to burn at the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery early Saturday killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80 in Venezuela's deadliest refinery blast ever. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    • A large fire rises over the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery, killing at least 24 people and injuring dozens, an official said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    • Family members load belongings onto a truck as they evacuate their damaged home after an explosion in the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. Venezuelans who live next to the country's biggest oil refinery said they smelled a strong odor of sulfur hours before a gas leak ignited in an explosion on Saturday that killed at least 39 people and injured more than 80. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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    Refinery fire

    Fires continue to burn at the Amuay refinery near Punto Fijo, Venezuela, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery early Saturday killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80 in Venezuela's deadliest refinery blast ever. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

    Venezuelan firefighters put out a blaze at the country's biggest oil refinery

    on Aug. 28, paving the way for a restart of the facility and an

    investigation into the world's deadliest refinery accident in fifteen

    years.