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Federal investigators say a utility wasn't marked before a deadly natural gas explosion in Missouri

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Federal investigators say a utility wasn't marked before a deadly natural gas explosion in Missouri .

One person was killed and two others were injured in the April 9 explosion in Lexington , Missouri .

NTSB says a subcontractor drilled into an unmarked underground gas main while installing fiber optic cable.

Liberty Utilities , a subsidiary of Algonquin Power and Utilities Corporation , sent someone out to mark its lines.

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