Explosion News

A series of bombs struck U.S. and Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said.

A bomb exploded in a train coach in India's insurgency-hit northeast on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring another 30, a state government official said.

The explosion occurred shortly after the train arrived at Diphu railroad station, about 200 miles (300 kilometers) south of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, said District Magistrate M.C. Sahu.

The train was heading from Lumding in central Assam to the eastern commercial hub of Tinsukhia, Sahu said.

All the 30 wounded have been hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, he said.

ONE person was killed and 20 anti-government protesters wounded in a bomb blast at Bangkok's domestic airport early today, as the evacuation of foreign travellers finally gets into full swing.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities Monday 1st December 2008 - 12:07pm Slough industrial estate rocked by explosion An explosion occurred on an industrial estate today, police said.

Dec1 - The rescuers were killed in a cave-in as they sought to retrieve the bodies of miners killed a day earlier by an underground explosion.

KABUL: A suicide attack near a German diplomatic convoy in Afghanistan's capital Kabul left three Afghan civilians dead Sunday as 20 other people, most of them insurgents, were reported killed in other unrest.

A coal mine blast in northern China killed 15 miners and three rescuers died in a cave-in Monday morning.

China's coal mines are the world's deadliest. Coal is hugely important in China, feeding two-thirds of the economy's energy demand.

Fifteen miners were confirmed dead after the gas explosion Sunday afternoon in the Changlong Coal Mine in Heilongjiang province, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said. Twenty-five people were in the mine but 10 escaped.

The cause of the explosion in Qitaihe city is still under investigation, Xinhua said.

Eight people have been injured, four of them seriously, after a gas explosion partially destroyed a block of flats in Wigan.

Tensions in Thailand are mounting as stranded British holidaymakers were forced to wait it out in Bangkok.

Friday, 28 November 2008, 5:35 pm Press Release: Australian Defence Force Friday, 28 November 2008 Lieutenant Michael Fussell Lieutenant Michael Fussell was killed by an Improvised Explosive Device detonation ...

Iran's Revolutionary Court has convicted three men of involvement in an explosion in a mosque that killed 14 people in April and sentenced them to death.

The court says in a statement that the three men were also found guilty of belonging to a monarchist group seeking to overthrow the government and were sentenced to be hanged.

A copy of the statement was made available to the AP Saturday.

Defense lawyers are protesting the ruling and the case is now at the Supreme Court for a final decision.

Firefighters narrowly escaped an explosion Friday that rocked the high school in Chase, in B.C.'s southern interior.

More than 2,000 gallons of gasoline spilled Friday from a tank at an eastern Texas oil refinery where an explosion and fire last week killed one worker and injured five.

The unleaded gas from Delek Refining Ltd. spilled into a creek, where firefighters set up a foam barrier to try to stop the spread. No injuries were reported.

Tyler Fire Department Chief Joey Wiggins said firefighters cleared the area after residents reported a strong gas smell. The refinery was closed at the time of the spill because Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the Nov. 21 explosion and fire.

Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say an explosion destroyed three businesses in a strip mall, but no injuries were reported.

THREE people have been killed and four wounded when a bomb ripped through a minibus at a central bus station in Sanaa, a police official said.

A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed vest killed 12 people and wounded 17 others inside a Shi'ite mosque south of Baghdad at prayer time on Friday, police said.

A fresh battle raged at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel Friday evening as commandos fired grenades at the Mumbai landmark while other forces ended a siege at another five-star hotel.

Another team rappelled from helicopters to storm a besieged Jewish center before a large explosion rocked the building and blew a gaping hole in the wall, two days after a chain of militant attacks across India's financial center that began Wednesday night left at least 143 people dead.

After hours of intermittent gunfire and explosions at the elegant Taj Mahal hotel Friday, the fight heated up at dusk when Indian forces began launching grenades at the hotel, where at least one militant was believed to be holed up inside a ballroom, officials said.

As the first explosion rattled the seafront homes of south Mumbai's Colaba district at about 10 p.m., my first thought was it must be a firecracker left over from last month's raucous Diwali festival.

An Afghan policeman passes by as a crane lifts the wreckage of a car used in a suicide car bomb attack, targeting a convoy of foreign forces, near the US embassy in Kabul yesterday KABUL: A suicide car bomb ...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday the attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 100 people were well planned and probably had "external linkages." Singh was speaking as witnesses in the Indian ...