http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/explosion/ en-us Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:10:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070981/posts INSTITUTE, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- While the people who work at the Bayer CropScience site are trying to cope with the aftermath of Thursday night's explosion, investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong. Broken glass and caution tape are two signs that Thursday night’s explosion reached far beyond the confines of the Institute plant. Jill Oliver of Oliver Oils and Fuels had some glass shattered at her business from the explosion, but knows what she lost can be replaced. "I hated that that man lost his life," she said Friday, referring to Barry Withrow, the Bayer CropScience employee who... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070981/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:10:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070370/posts <p>NSTITUTE, W.Va. -- Witnesses reported seeing a red fireball and feeling a blast as far away as Charleston, after an explosion was reported at the Bayer Crop Science Plant in Institute at 10:35 p.m. Thursday. The explosion was heard at least as far away as Mink Shoals.</p> Charlston Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070370/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061723/posts Russia has defied an order by Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, to obey the peace deal with Georgia, as its Foreign Minister announced the world can "forget about" Georgia's territorial integrity. Earlier claims that Russian troops had commenced a withdrawal from Gori were dismissed as at least five explosions were heard in the town. Journalists were forced to leave by a Russian soldier firing shots into the air. Troops are also thought to have returned to the strategically important port town of Poti. A Georgian spokesman said: "The Russian troops are destroying the city of Gori. They are... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061723/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:17:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059384/posts Sunday, August 10, 2008 The explosion seen from the Keele Overpass Image: Michael Gil. A large explosion has been reported at a propane depot in northern Toronto on Keele Street, near the Highway 401, at approximately 3:48am EST. The cause is currently unknown. A person who was 10km from the explosion told Wikinews that "my house shook 10 km away. The sky was rumbling every few seconds." A user on YouTube named "wolfshades" said that "we don't know whether the explosion was chemical or by virtue of its proximity to the Toronto Airport if a plane had crashed." It is... wiki news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059384/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:01:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058604/posts The Canadian military is sending a long-range Aurora aircraft to investigate reports of a mysterious explosion along Canada's Northwest Passage that may have killed several whales. The drama apparently began in the early-morning hours of July 31, when an Inuit hunting party at an outpost camp at Borden Peninsula on northeastern Baffin Island was alerted to the sound of an explosion, followed by a cloud of black smoke. An Inuit member of the Canadian Rangers, a military reservist unit stationed in the far North, reported the incident, and said a hunter at the camp saw several dead whales on shore... CanWest News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058604/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:17:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053362/posts GAZA, July 29 (Reuters) - An explosion in a Hamas training camp in the Gaza Strip injured four militants on Tuesday, Palestinian security sources said. The Islamist group did not blame anyone for causing the blast at a base near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, and local residents said it may have been related to a work accident. reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053362/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:27:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051037/posts London-based Daily Telegraph reports of mysterious blast in military convoy leaving Revolutionary Guards Base last weekend. At least 15 people killed in explosion, but Iranian authorities seeking to silence incident Was sabotage responsible for disrupting a shipment of arms from Iran to Hizbullah? The London-based Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Friday of a mysterious explosion which devastated an Iranian supply convoy intended to reach Hizbullah. According to the report, the strong blast took place in one of Tehran's suburbs as a military convoy left a Revolutionary Guards' ammunition storehouse. At least 15 people were killed in the explosion. Western sources reported... Y-NET (Israel) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051037/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:34:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050794/posts For an organisation that prides itself on being a well-run administrative machine, the leadership of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards is having a rather testing time. It’s not just last Saturday’s mysterious explosion in a suburb of Tehran that killed 15 people that is causing the leadership sleepless nights, although the nationwide news black-out imposed immediately afterwards does suggest the Revolutionary Guards, the storm troops of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, are rattled. Details are only now starting to reach the outside world, and it looks increasingly like sabotage was responsible for devastating a military convoy as it travelled through Khavarshahar. The company responsible... UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050794/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:50:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038983/posts Gas plant blast kills 15 in Iran 2008-06-30 TEHRAN, June 30 (Xinhua) -- About 15 people are feared to have lost their lives in an explosion of natural gas tanks in a city west of Tehran, Iran's satellite Press TV said on Monday. The explosion ripped through the Mohammad-Shahr gas processing plant at about 22:00 local time (1930 GMT) Sunday in the city of Karaj, said the report. An undisclosed number of gas tanks blew up on the heels of the initial explosion, adding to the intensity of the blast, Press TV said. The cause of the explosion has not... xinhuanet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038983/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:24:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035894/posts At 4:18pm PDT there was some kind of large explosion in the financial district here in San Francisco, people have come out of their buildings to see. Police have taped off the area south of Pine on California Street. Cable Cars have stopped running. More to follow... Just Heard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035894/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033037/posts WASHINGTON, June 18, 2008 – An explosion yesterday that killed at least 27 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Hurriyah district likely was the work of Iranian-backed “special groups,” a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said today. Army Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq, called the attack -- which also wounded 40 people in the primarily Shiite Muslim area -- a “senseless and troubling event.” More information will be available in the days ahead as Iraqi investigators sift through the rubble, Bergner said at a news conference. But initial work with the truck and the explosives and have... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033037/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:22:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032571/posts Cancun, Mexico, Jun 17 (EFE).- An explosion Tuesday in the kitchen of a hotel in this Caribbean tourist mecca left 11 people injured, two of them seriously, authorities said. The Red Cross and the police told reporters that about 3:30 a.m. they received a report of a fire in the Gran Caribe Real hotel. An initial inspection of the site showed that the explosion originated because of an accumulation of gases in the area where the employee dining rooms are, which makes up part of the hotel's kitchen. The incident forced authorities to evacuate the tourists whose rooms were near... Marco World Investor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032571/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:00:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026887/posts Oil prices fell closer to $122 a barrel Thursday as investors become more wary of falling global demand and a strengthening dollar, despite an explosion at a Kuwaiti petrochemical plant. By early afternoon in Europe, light, sweet crude for July delivery fell 10 cents to $122.20 per barrel in electronic trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract had risen rose as high as $123.25 earlier in the session. On Wednesday, it fell $2.01 during the floor session to close at $122.30, its lowest settlement since May 6. Changing expectations over global demand were seen as the main cause... ap http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026887/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 04:01:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026882/posts COLOMBO, June 6 (Reuters) - Several people were killed and others injured in bus explosion during the morning rush hour in a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, police said. "There was an explosion in a bus at Moratuwa, a few people were killed and some injured," said police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekara. (Reporting by Ranga Sirilal; Editing by Valerie Lee) Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026882/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 03:36:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2025152/posts Nuclear device exploded in Sichuan By Boxun Jun 1, 2008 - 6:46:34 PM Lu Shishen, who reported the cover up of the earthquake forecast, said that there was a strong nuclear explosion in Sichuan during the earthquake. Xinhua reported yesterday that an explosion of “volcano was observed in the earthquake”, people said that concrete debris was burst out of the crack during the quake. Experts tested the debris and found it is radioactive, according to Lu Shishen’s report. Full report in Chinese: http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2008/06/200806020720.shtml Boxun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2025152/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:57:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025151/posts The unidentified flying object is NOT believed to be a plane as none have been reported missing in the area. Investigators are working on the theory the explosion happened five miles above the ground. A search of Phu Quoc island off southern Vietnam uncovered shards of grey “metal” up to four feet long. Unexplained explosion ... map showing island Soldiers combed the area for clues yesterday as airlines in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand insisted none of their aircraft were missing in the area. Villagers in the nearby Cambodian province of Kampot said on Tuesday that they had heard a... The Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025151/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:53:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024661/posts ISLAMABAD (AFP) — A blast occurred Monday outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, causing casualties, police and security officials said. "Yes, there has been a blast at the Danish embassy but we are not sure whether it was inside or out," local police official Mohammad Shabir told AFP. Security officials said there were several casualties. AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024661/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 08:05:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018510/posts SAN DIEGO (AP) — An explosion rocked a hotel under construction Monday, ripping off part of the building's facade, sending debris flying and injuring 14 workers, five critically, authorities said.Some of the workers were burned and others were injured by debris, fire department spokesman Maurice Luque said. The building did not burn after the explosion, which Luque said appeared to be accidental.Matt McBride, general manager of the Tin Fish bar about 150 yards away, said he was setting up the outdoor patio bar when the blast occurred. He said he and other workers froze as they saw smoke come out... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018510/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 05:34:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018337/posts SAN DIEGO - An apparent blast rocked a Hilton hotel under construction today and a fire official said a dozen workers were injured. Two of the injured were in critical condition, eight had serious injuries and two had minor injuries, said fire spokesman Maurice Luque. Injuries ranged from burns to impacts of flying debris, he said. However, the building did not burn, he said. About four lower floors of the waterfront skyscraper near the San Diego Convention Center showed serious damage and debris littered a driveway beneath the area. AP on Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018337/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 23:07:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018315/posts Several floors of a Hilton hotel under construction in downtown San Diego have been badly damaged in an apparent explosion. There are no immediate reports of injuries. About four lower floors of the waterfront skyscraper near the San Diego Convention Center showed serious damage after the Monday afternoon incident. AP via Newsday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018315/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 22:24:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015272/posts Five major blasts rocked the pink city of 'Jaipur' on Tuesday (May 13) at 7.35 pm. The serial blasts occured in Tripolia, Manek Chowk and Chandpol Gate, while the fourth blast occured at Lakshmi Mishthan Bhandar in old Jaipur. Though the cause of the blast is still unknown, it's learnt that five blasts occured within a span of half an hour in the walled city of Jaipur. According to initial reports, around 6 people have been killed, while 50 have been injured. According to initial reports, around 6 people have been killed and 50 have been injured. The injureds were... News Post India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015272/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 15:24:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015560/posts A devastated scene near the Hanuman Mandir after the serial blasts in Jaipur. A series of explosions rocked the walled city on Tuesday evening, killing and injuring several people JAIPUR: Terror struck yet again — this time in Jaipur, at the busiest market, at the busiest hour, aimed with chilling precision to kill, maim, terrify and cleave the country. At last count, the toll was 80 killed, and with over 150 injured, it could go up. (Watch) The first blast took place at 7.20pm on Tuesday in the crowded Johari Bazaar and within 15 minutes seven more blasts occurred in... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015560/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 00:30:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013869/posts SAN DIEGO (AP) - The FBI has released surveillance video of a powerful pipe bomb explosion that shattered big windows at a federal courthouse and filled the lobby with smoke. FBI spokesman Darrell Foxworth says the agency hopes anyone with information about the explosion early Sunday feels compelled to contact investigators after seeing the video. The bomb caused significant damage to the lobby but no injuries, and forced the courthouse to close for one day. The FBI recovered more than 100 nails and shrapnel up to two blocks from the courthouse, Foxworth says. Investigators believe the bomb may be linked... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013869/posts#comment Sat, 10 May 2008 02:44:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011215/posts SAN DIEGO — An early morning explosion at the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego left a door damaged and blew out a window. Sgt. Bob Dare of the San Diego Police Department says the loud blast occurred at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday. Streets in the area have been closed. No injuries were reported. The explosion is under investigation. FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth told a local TV station it appears the explosion may have been caused by a pipe bomb. Arizona Daily Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011215/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 23:33:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011142/posts SAN DIEGO – A pipe bomb or series of pipe bombs exploded at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Courthouse downtown early Sunday morning, sending shrapnel into a courtyard and to the eighth floor of a building across the street. Two guards with the Federal Protective Service, who were inside the building, called authorities when they heard the explosion at 1:40 a.m. on Front Street near Broadway. The guards were not injured. Firefighters, police, FBI and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents arrived minutes later to find the front entrance and the lobby of the building damaged. The cause is believed to... San Diego Union Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011142/posts#comment Sun, 4 May 2008 20:12:13 GMT