According to the local villagers, the intensity of the blast was such that it had left about a 30-foot-deep crater. The local authorities launched a rescue operation after the blast.
Defence spokesperson Colonel Sombit Ghosh said the incident took place on Wednesday when the barrel of the tank exploded with a huge bang. However, no loss of life was reported, he said.
The oil tanker Sanchi - registered in Panama - was still on fire after a collision with the Hong Kong-registered bulk freighter CF Crystal on Saturday.
An exploding battery in a set of headphones has left a woman with burns to her face and hands during a flight from Beijing to Melbourne.
Dhaka: Opening batsman Dwayne Smith is backing Chris Gayle to explode as West Indies continues its campaign to defend its title in a tough group of the World T20 tournament.Smith, speaking after West Indies 73
Songkhla: Three bombs exploded Sunday in southern Thailand, injuring more than two dozen people in what appeared to be an attack by Islamic insurgents, authorities said.Songkhla's provincial governor told state-run NBT television that 27 people
New Delhi: Two birthday balloons filled with hydrogen gas exploded inside a Maruti Esteem car on Begumpur Road in Buddh Vihar, Delhi, on Sunday.The car owner Prashant alongwith his two friends were carrying birthday items
Sanaa, July 15: Fourteen people, among them four children, were killed when a generator exploded in a village in Yemen, police officials said.A total of 14 people, including eight women besides four children, were killed
Toronto, July 7: Around 1,000 people had to be evacuated Saturday after a driverless train carrying light crude oil exploded in a Canadian town, BBC reported.Some 60 people were missing, but no casualties were confirmed
Bijnore, UP, Feb 23: The act was not there at all in the script. The script was confined to Bollywood actor Nagma endorsing the candidature of Congress candidate Hussain Ahmed Ansari, but Hussain went a
Meerut, Feb 15: A scrap dealer trying to cut the metallic body of an old petrol tanker with oxy-acytelene gas cutter caused a blast followed by a fire engulfing three other tankers on Tuesday evening,
Muradnagar,UP, Dec 13: A truck carrying Indian Oil LPG cylinders from the depot to the local distributor caught fire because of a spark in one of its wheels this morning and several of the cylinders
Mogadishu, Somalia, Oct 4: A car laden with explosives blew up in front of the Ministry of Education in the Somali capital Tuesday, killing 55 people in the biggest attack since an Islamist insurgent group
Tokyo, Apr 12: As Japan raised its assessment of crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the worst rating of 7 on an international scale, putting it on par with the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, the
The U.S. army will soon begin using a futuristic rifle that fires radio-controlled 'smart' bullets in Afghanistan for the first time. The bullet is programmed to explode when it travels a set distance, reports The
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