Warehouse fire, blast kill 12 in India

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian rescue official says a major fire and a powerful blast rocked a warehouse storing chemicals in western India on Wednesday, killing 12 people. The cause of the fire is being investigated. National Disaster Response Force spokesman Krishan Kuma said on Wednesday that 12 bodies were recovered from the warehouse of a cotton factory on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, a key city in Gujarat state. Television images showed several workers fleeing the premises. Twenty-four fi