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Sport  BBC Weather  Saturday, 22 September, 2001, 17:20 GMT
18:20 UK Anger at Toulouse blast location Toulouse factory blast
scene Around 400 firefighters worked through the night The Mayor
of the city of Toulouse in southern France, Philippe Douste-
Blazy, has called for all potentially hazardous factories and
plants to be relocated away from areas where people live.  Mr
Douste-Blazy made the demand as rescuers continued to search for
survivors in the ruins of a chemical fertilizer plant, which
exploded on Friday.  Toulouse resident surveying her damaged
flat The damage could have been greater had the fire reached a
nearby explosives plant After working throughout the night
emergency services have recovered four more bodies, bringing the
death toll to 29.  Around 700 people were also injured in the
blast, around 50 of them are in