At least 10 people have been wounded. The injured people have been taken to a nearby hospital following the suicide attack. Meanwhile, the gunmen are fighting the security forces in Jalalabad.
Rescue operations on Thursday continued at a firecracker factory site where 23 people were killed and 27 injured in a powerful explosion here, officials said. Teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were trying to find out any person still trapped under the debris.
Twenty-three people were killed and 27 got injured in the explosion in Batala town. Scattered shoes, broken glass panes and vehicles were seen all over the accident spot, as security personnel and rescuers were sifting through the rubble in search of survivors.
Pakistan said on Sunday that at least three persons, including a policeman, were injured in a blast outside its Consulate General in the volatile Jalalabad city in Afghanistan.
One person was killed and five others injured in Tamil Nadu's Kancheepuram district on Sunday when an unidentified object they found in a temple pond suddenly blew up, police said. Police, however, said the incident was not connected with the current alert in the state.
Five persons were killed and six others were injured in a remote-controlled blast in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, police said.
A powerful blast targeting a police vehicle in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province has killed five people, including two security personnel, and injured 38 others, a top police official said on Wednesday.
B.C. Steel factory deals in remodeling hot iron and several employees were on the job when the blast occurred. All the injured are reportedly migrant labourers from Bihar and UP.
Unknown miscreants had hurled a bomb at the residence of Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Barrackpore, Arjun Singh, in West Bengal. The miscreants had also fired bullets outside Arjun Singh's residence. Any injuries or casualties were not reported in the incident. A case has been registered and further investigation in underway.
The Rajasthan High Court has acquitted six lifers while upholding the death sentence to one and the life term to another in the 23-year-old case of a bomb blast in a bus at Samleti in Dausa district, in which 14 people were killed.
Nine people were killed and 33 others sustained injuries as a blast hit the southern gate of Kabul University in Kabul on Friday, news agency Xinhua reported.
A Japanese fire official says at least 23 people are now confirmed or presumed dead in suspected arson at a popular animation production studio in Kyoto. Kyoto fire department official Satoshi Fujiwara says 36 others have been injured, some of them critically. He says firefighters found more than 10 people presumed dead on the top floor of a three-story building, some of them collapsed on the stairs leading to the roof.
The blast flung debris widely along a busy road in Plantation, west of Fort Lauderdale. The restaurant was destroyed, and nearby businesses and cars were damaged. Though firefighters found ruptured gas lines afterward, authorities said it was too early to determine a cause.
Birbhum Blast: A massive blast occurred at a primary health centre building on Thursday in West Bengal's Birbhum district but there was no report of any casualty, police said. The severity of the blast was such that the roof and wall of one side of the building at Labhpur were blown away. Two rooms were reduced to rubble.
Five Pakistani Army soldiers were killed and another injured in an explosion near the Line of Control on Wednesday, the country's Army said.
A massive fire has broken out inside a plastic company complex in Noida Special Economic Zone (NSEZ). Initial reports are pointing towards a blast that has taken place inside the compound, however the reason for the fire is yet unknown. No casualties have been reported thus far.
The severity of the blast was such that the roof and wall of one side of the club building at Mollarpur were blown away and some of the houses in the vicinity were damaged, police said
According to reports, one person was killed in the blast that hit a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kulgam. The injured ones were taken to the hospital.
Human rights worker from Quetta, MiaKhail has posted a video on Twitter, which shows thick smoke rising from the hospital.
Authorities had shifted the fifth victim of the family, a six-year-old boy, to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi for specialized treatment on Thursday.
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