17 killed in fire at Russian industrial explosives factory
World | October 23, 2021 7:55 ISTThe fire that covered an area of 160 square meters has been extinguished. The factory building was completely destroyed in the blast.
The fire that covered an area of 160 square meters has been extinguished. The factory building was completely destroyed in the blast.
In Kunduz, police officials were still picking up the pieces Friday at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque.
The car bomb attack targeted motorcade of Aden's governor Ahmed Lamlas and other officials of Saudi-backed Yemeni govt, he said.
The attack was latest in a series of IS bombings and shootings that have targeted Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers, as well as religious institutions and members of the country’s minority Shiites.
The factory is located in Kairana town, and at the time of the explosion, 10 workers were present on the premises, Shamli District Magistrate (DM) Jasjit Kaur said.
Two persons inside the godown and one person outside the godown died on the spot. The impact of the blast was such that the body parts of the victims were strewn across the area.
The fire brigade personnel and police rushed to the spot on being alerted and launched a rescue operation.
At least 13 people were injured following an explosion at a police station near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, officials in the city of Cucuta said on Monday.
"Protection of civilians and rights and freedoms of Afghan people- in particular women and children must be a priority," the UNGA president said on Thursday in a note emailed to UN correspondents, Xinhua news agency reported.
"I want to stress that this threat of a terrorist attack is one of the constraints that we've been operating under in Operation Pitting, in the big extraction that's been going on, and we've been ready for it; we've been prepared for it," Johnson told the reporters after an emergency meeting, Xinhua reported.
The bombings came hours after Western officials warned of a major attack, urging people to leave the airport. However, the advice went largely unheeded by Afghans desperate to escape the country in the last few days of an American-led evacuation before the U.S. officially ends its 20-year presence on Aug. 31.
The incident happened on Saturday in Karachi’s Baldia town when the victims were returning home in the truck after attending a marriage ceremony.
Two people, Gopal Sharma (35) of Udhampur and Mohammad Aquib (16) of Mangit-Khari, were injured in the incident. They were shifted to hospital where their condition is stated to be stable, police said.
The blast happened a day before the Eid al-Adha holiday when the market was busy with shoppers looking for gifts and groceries.
The blaze sent up giant orange flames on a vessel at the crucial Jebel Ali Port, the busiest in the Middle East that sits on the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula.
Firefighters were still working to contain the blaze hours later, and authorities ordered an evacuation of the area amid fears that thousands of liters (gallons) of leaking chemicals may cause more explosions.
Fire tenders rushed to the spot after getting information. Injured were shifted to nearby Thunga hospital.
Explosion in Dhaka may have been caused by a faulty gas line or gas cylinders, authorities said on Monday.
At least seven people died and dozens were injured in an explosion Sunday in Bangladesh’s capital. But authorities could not determine the nature of the explosion that damaged vehicles and surrounding buildings, the police and fire department said.
At least seven people died and dozens were injured in an explosion Sunday in Bangladesh’s capital.
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