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Authorities say an explosion Thursday afternoon at a biodiesel plant in northwest Ohio has injured three people. 1 of those injured has been taken to a Toledo hospital and the other two are being treated at a Defiance hospital.
Officials say the injured had been in an office at the plant. Police in Defiance say the explosion happened around 3 p.m. at American AG Fuels. It's not clear what caused the blast.
Authorities evacuated a two-block area next to the plant for about two hours until residents were allowed to return. The plant began processing soybean oil to make biodiesel within the last three years.
http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=7574216
Rotterdam terror attack foiled (Netherlands)
Thursday 03 January 2008
Three men arrested in Rotterdam on New Year’s eve following a tip off by the security services were planning a terrorist attack on the city’s Erasmus bridge where 15,000 people were due to celebrate the New Year, according to Thursday’s Telegraaf.
The paper says its information comes from ‘well informed sources’ involved in the investigation. Three men in their 30s, two with dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality and one alleged to be an illegal immigrant from Sudan, are currently in police custody.
Although there has been widespread speculation over whether the suspects were planning a terrorist attack, the security service and public prosecution office have said only that the men were suspected of planning an attack in the near future. A spokeswoman for the prosecution department declined to comment on the possible target of such an attack or its motive, reports news service ANP.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/01/suspects_planned_terror_attack.php
Illegal immigrants walk three miles through Channel Tunnel in attempt to sneak into UK
03.01.08
Four illegal immigrants who breached tight security to sneak into the French entrance to the Channel Tunnel were only spotted three miles inside by a train driver. The gang were walking along one of the main rail tunnel, with 100mph Eurostar trains to Britain passing just feet away when they were stopped at 8.30am on Wednesday morning, police said.
Eurostar passengers suffered three hours of delays to trains in both directions while French frontier police officers and a French Channel Tunnel fire crew arrested the immigrants and returned them to France. The group were just feet from high-speed trains travelling at 100mph
A Calais frontier police spokesman added: "They were risking their lives by walking against the tunnel wall, very close to trains passing at high speed. "They were glimpsed by a train driver passing them at about 100mph, who immediately alerted the authorities. "Trains were stopped while police and fire teams used the main service tunnel to catch up with the immigrants and head them off. "They have been arrested and are being held in custody by frontier police in Calais."
The four men, believed to be Afghans who have been in Calais for several weeks, now face prosecution for breaking and entering into Eurotunnel property and could be jailed for up to a year before being deported, the spokesman said.
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