Drilling platform explodes off La. coast; no deaths or oil spill

Friday, September 3, 2010

NEW ORLEANS -- An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

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