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World | July 20, 2021 7:43 ISTThe blast happened a day before the Eid al-Adha holiday when the market was busy with shoppers looking for gifts and groceries.
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.
A small volcano near the Philippine capital belched a dark plume of steam and ash into the sky in a brief explosion Thursday, prompting officials to start evacuating thousands of villagers from high-risk areas.
Two explosives-laden drones crashed into the high-security Indian Air Force station at Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday, officials said. Two IAF personnel were injured in the explosions that took place around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other. The first blast ripped off the roof of a single-storey building at the technical area of the airport manned by the IAF in Satwari area of the city. The second one was on the ground, the officials said.
The possibility of the use of weaponized drones for terrorist activities against strategic and commercial assets calls for serious attention by the global community, India has told the UN General Assembly.
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.
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.
A CCTV footage accessed by India TV has captured visuals of the twin explosions that took place at the high security technical area of Air Force Station in Jammu on the intervening night of June 26-27.
Watch exclusive CCTV footage, and visuals capturing the moments when twin explosions rocked Jammu IAF station.
Two explosives-laden drones crashed into the high-security Indian Air Force station at Jammu airport in the early hours of Sunday, officials said. Two IAF personnel were injured in the explosions that took place around 1.40 am within six minutes of each other.
An alert has been sounded in Punjab's border district of Pathankot on Sunday after two explosives-laden drones crashed into the high-security Indian Air Force station at Jammu airport.
The first blast, which took place around 1.45 am, ripped off the roof of a building at the technical area of the airport manned by the Air Force. The second one was on the ground.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh's office said he spoke to Vice Air Chief, Air Marshal HS Arora over the explosions.
Two explosions were heard in a difference of 5 minutes at Jammu airport's technical area in the early hours of Sunday. Reports suggest that the explosion took place around 1:45 am on Sunday. The forensic team and bomb disposal squad reached the spot where the blast took place.
The explosion was reported today in Lahore’s Johar Town area. Those injured have been shifted to a hospital.
According to the Dawn newspaper, it was not immediately clear what caused the blast. "So far we have not been able to determine whether a gas pipeline burst or whether it was a cylinder. But we have shifted four people to the hospital and more injured are expected," a spokesperson for the emergency rescue team said.
At least fourteen people were injured after an explosion rocked Pakistan on Wednesday. According to the details, the blast was reported in Lahore’s Johar Town area, from near the house of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
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