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Five people have died after a 'gas leak' caused a Pennsylvania chocolate factory to explode, hospitalizing eight and leaving six still missing as the inferno rages on. 

RM Palmer Company in West Reading caught fire last night after a terrifying explosion caused by a supposed gas leak. 

Officials have not determined the cause of the explosion, but Garry Witmoyer, of, Wyomissing, said it sounded like a gas explosion. 

'I didn't know, I just come running out and saw that mess over there. I think it was a gas explosion the way it sounded,' he told ABC 6. 'It was very scary, the building filled with smoke from just the explosion.' 

Her son said: 'I didn't see flames at first, just a bunch of shingles and materials falling from the sky. I knew it was an explosion.'  

No one was evacuated before the explosion, which has left firefighters to still battling the blaze. RM Palmer Building #2 has been completely destroyed and building #1 has sustained some damage.