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ROSE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A decade ago, Harebell Childress was bathing when lightning hit his home and set it on fire.He escaped unscathed, wearing only a towel, and rebuilt his house. Earlier this week, he was watching television when an explosion burned the house down. He got out with just cuts on his forehead and a sore back and left shoulder. "I tell you, it's the Lord did it," the 70-year-old retired Pontiac school principal told The Oakland Press. "I was surrounded by a host of angels." The odds of surviving two such disasters are so remote, actuaries for...

An explosion has taken place near Camp Zama in Japan. The explosion was 800 ft outside the Camp. Japan LE's are handling the case....no copy yet.

Sunday, 17 November, 2002, 16:07 GMTTanker explodes off China Reports from Beijing say that one oil tanker exploded and another was heavily damaged in a fire in southern China. Details are sketchy but reports say that the blaze occurred near an oil depot in Qingliu, a village in the southern province of Guangdong, near Hong Kong. Local reports say that more than 50 fire engines, five firefighting boats and two helicopters assisted in tackling the blaze. Three people were reported injured. The tanker which exploded was carrying more than 100 tons of oil. It ignited more than 400 tons of...

Police thought Louis Dethy had committed suicide until they opened a chest in his house in Charlerois, Belgium. Kim Willsher reports. A reclusive pensioner who booby-trapped his home with the intention of killing his estranged family, died himself when he inadvertently triggered one of his own devices. Belgian police have revealed that Louis Dethy, a retired engineer, had hidden a number of booby traps in walls, ceilings and household objects throughout his three-storey home. The traps appeared to be a revenge on the children and grandchildren he claimed had abandoned him. At first Belgian police assumed the 79-year-old had committed...

Man dies after trying to lay an anti-tank mine in eastern Afghanistan Posted by Afgha.com on Sunday, November 10 2002 @ 07:10:46 CET (35 reads) Associated Press - World Politics - via Yahoo News Sat Nov 9,12:07 PM ET KHOST, Afghanistan - An anti-tank mine exploded in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing a man who was apparently trying to mine a road used by U.S. Special Forces troops searching for Taliban and al-Qaida militants, an Afghan official said. The man, whose identity was unknown, was trying to lay the mine on the road about seven kilometers (four miles) southeast...

   Pig 'shoots slaughterman' A pig being slaughtered accidentally jumped on a rifle, causing it to go off and killed a slaughterman.John Matson was hit by a single bullet when the pig, which had been shot, lurched forward and knocked the rifle over.It went off, hitting 55-year-old Matson at the slaughterhouse in Frazee, Minnesota.He was taken to a hospital in Fargo where he died. The shooting has been ruled an accident by officials. (You sure about that Columbo?!)

SAN'A, Yemen, Nov 04, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Six suspected Muslim militants were killed Monday in a car explosion, a security official said. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the blast occurred at dawn in the northern province of Marib, about 100 miles northwest of the capital San'a. "Investigators haven't been able to identify the bodies yet but given the magnitude of the explosion, they believe the men belonged to a radical Islamic group," the official said, without elaborating. It was unclear how the blast happened. The official said the car was moving when it exploded,...

Just heard on KMOX radio here in St. Louis that a Fed Ex truck exploded on interstate 270 here in North St. Louis County. Truck went airborne. No further word on cause.

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It is being reported that the Russian government is planning to use force to end the crisis. Because of the breakdown in talks, the terrorists plan to start executing hostages as of 6:00 am tomorrow. 18:20 All journalists are told to leave the scene. The elite Alpha anti-terrorist unit is brought in.

<p>October 14, 2002 -- TEL AVIV - A Palestinian militant was blown up in a telephone booth yesterday near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, in a killing similar to previous Israeli assassinations.</p> <p>The dead man was identified as Mohammed Abayat, 28, a commander with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a paramilitary group affiliated with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction.</p>

Militants in the Fatah movement vowed revenge Monday for the assassination of a Fatah Tanzim activist on Sunday near Bethlehem, Army Radio reported. The Palestinian Authority has accused Israel of using a booby-trapped public phone booth near Beit Jalla hospital to assassinate Mohammed Abiat, a mid-ranking member of the Tanzim from the Bethlehem area, killed Sunday when the receiver he was holding blew up. Palestinian sources said Sunday night that the victim was not the real target, and that Israel wanted to get his older brother, Nasser, the current comander of the Tanzim military wing in the Bethlehem area. The...

My husband heard on Bill Cunningham talk radio in Cincinnati that a war protestor inserted a firecracker in his penis and threatened to light it. Has anyone heard of this bazaar incident? I have to find this unusual story for my Bulldog Bulletin.