Dallas Gas Explosion Injures 3
At least three people were injured today after a stock of acetylene tanks and 18-wheelers exploded at a gas plant south of downtown Dallas, sending thick plumes of black smoke and chunks of debris...
View Article24 Dead in China Mine Blast
Twenty-four people died and five were wounded in a blast at an illegal iron mine in China yesterday, Xinhua reports. Mine owners, who fled the scene, had masked the site as a boar farm to dupe...
View ArticleThai Gen. Demands Elections After Explosions
Following a second explosion at a Bangkok airport seized by protesters, Thailand's top general today demanded that parliament be dissolved and new elections held. Gen Anupong Paochinda denied the move...
View ArticleDozens of Afghan Civilians Killed In NATO Tanker Strike
At least 90 people were killed in northern Afghanistan today when a NATO air strike hit two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban, setting off a massive explosion. At least 40 of the dead were...
View Article33 Injured in Kenya Blast
An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi today, injuring at least 33 people, including a woman who blamed the blast on a "bearded man" who left behind a bag...
View Article29 Homes in Suspicious Indiana Blast to Be Razed
Demolitions have been ordered for more than two dozen homes in a blast-ravaged Indianapolis neighborhood where a house explosion that killed two people is being investigated as a homicide case ,...
View ArticleSeattle Gas Blast Levels Businesses
Shop owners on Wednesday inspected walls that were ripped to shreds by an early morning natural gas explosion in Seattle and marveled that the blast had caused no serious injuries. Crews were...
View ArticleDallas Gas Explosion Injures 3
At least three people were injured today after a stock of acetylene tanks and 18-wheelers exploded at a gas plant south of downtown Dallas, sending thick plumes of black smoke and chunks of debris...
View Article24 Dead in China Mine Blast
Twenty-four people died and five were wounded in a blast at an illegal iron mine in China yesterday, Xinhua reports. Mine owners, who fled the scene, had masked the site as a boar farm to dupe...
View ArticleThai Gen. Demands Elections After Explosions
Following a second explosion at a Bangkok airport seized by protesters, Thailand's top general today demanded that parliament be dissolved and new elections held. Gen Anupong Paochinda denied the move...
View ArticleDozens of Afghan Civilians Killed In NATO Tanker Strike
At least 90 people were killed in northern Afghanistan today when a NATO air strike hit two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban, setting off a massive explosion. At least 40 of the dead were...
View Article33 Injured in Kenya Blast
An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi today, injuring at least 33 people, including a woman who blamed the blast on a "bearded man" who left behind a bag...
View Article29 Homes in Suspicious Indiana Blast to Be Razed
Demolitions have been ordered for more than two dozen homes in a blast-ravaged Indianapolis neighborhood where a house explosion that killed two people is being investigated as a homicide case ,...
View ArticleSeattle Gas Blast Levels Businesses
Shop owners on Wednesday inspected walls that were ripped to shreds by an early morning natural gas explosion in Seattle and marveled that the blast had caused no serious injuries. Crews were...
View ArticleDozens Killed, 70 Injured in Fuel Tanker Blast
A damaged tanker truck exploded in eastern Tanzania Saturday as people were trying to siphon fuel out of it, killing at least 57, police say. A regional police commissioner tells local media that many...
View ArticleRussia Has a Message for Nuclear Monitors
To international monitors, Russia has one word: nyet . The Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization is seeking information on monitoring sites that went offline in the days after a mysterious...
View ArticleShopping Center 'Probably Totaled' by Explosion
At around 7am, a fire alarm rang at a Maryland shopping center. An hour later, half the building blew up. Luckily a lot happened in between, with firefighters identifying a gas leak and evacuating the...
View ArticleAt Least 40 Killed, Dozens Injured in Gas Truck Explosion
A truck carrying gasoline exploded in northern Haiti, killing more than 40 people and injuring dozens of others, officials and news reports said Tuesday. The blast occurred late Monday in the city of...
View ArticleAfter Blast, She Caught on Fire. Then, a Plunge Into Chocolate
A woman pulled alive from the rubble of a Pennsylvania chocolate factory after an explosion that killed seven co-workers says her arm caught fire as flames engulfed the building—and then she fell...
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