URGENT: At least 8 dead in Cyprus navy base blast

At least eight people were killed in a massive explosion at a military base on the southern coast of Cyprus on Monday, damaging a major power station nearby and plunging half the island into darkness.
The state Cyprus News Agency quoted military sources as saying there were also scores of injured at the Evangelos Florakis base near Zygi, half-way between the coastal cities of Limassol and Larnaca.
The explosions threw debris onto the highway several hundred metres away, injuring some motorists, while the main road link from Limassol to Nicosia has been shut.
It is believed the blasts occurred in a dump housing munitions which Cyprus had confiscated from a vessel heading to Syria from Iran in 2009.
"It looks like a bombed-out landscape," a witness told Sigma television, with other reports describing the area as an enormous crater.