UP: 2 killed, 6 hurt as illegal firecracker stockpile explodes in Lucknow
India | June 04, 2018 15:26 ISTReports suggest that several people have also been injured in the blast. Rescue operations are underway.
Reports suggest that several people have also been injured in the blast. Rescue operations are underway.
Officials said a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside Jalalabad's customs finance department before other insurgents stormed the building.
Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs Raveesh Kumar said Indian embassy in Kathmandu was in touch with the Nepal government over the incident and that the security authorities in that country were investigating the matter.
The explosion happened near a mosque in Shindand district, said Jilani Farhad, a spokesman for Herat's governor said.
Two other explosions were also reported from Kamjong and Imphal West districts yesterday night but there was no report of any casualty.
A Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: "This is a search and rescue at the moment. It is unknown if people are injured or trapped."
The blast took place around 11 am in the water tank of the berthed ONGC tanker Sagar Bhushan when some 20 workers were working in the tanker ship.
Taliban has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, as per Afghan media.
The New York Police Department was responding to reports of an explosion of unknown origin on Monday morning in midtown Manhattan at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, the police department’s official twitter handle said.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi visited Raebareli today to meet the victims of an explosion in a boiler at NTPC's Unchahar plant where at least 30 people have been killed.
Reports said a mysterious explosion took place outside the propulsion complex of ISRO in Tamil Nadu's Mahendragiri hills.
A preliminary investigation has found that faulty ammunition was the reason behind the explosion on the Army's new long-range ultra-light (ULH) howitzer M-777 during a field trial in Pokhran earlier this month
London's Metropolitan Police and ambulance services confirmed "an incident" at the Parsons Green subway station in the southwest of the capital.
The Metropolitan police confirmed that the London tube blast at Parsons Green is being treated as a 'terrorist' incident
Officials had already ordered the evacuation of an area within three kilometers of the organic peroxides plant, which operators had said was at risk of exploding due to a "critical issue" triggered by monster storm Harvey's torrential rains
A massive explosion on Wednesday rocked the diplomatic area of Afghan capital Kabul.
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