TLAHUELILPAN, Mexico (AP) - People in the town where a gasoline explosion killed at least 85 people say the section of pipeline that gushed fuel has been a habitual gathering site for thieves, repeatedly damaged and patched like a trusty…
STAVROPOL, Five people were hospitalized on Sunday after a fire broke out at an oil refinery in Novopavlovsk, in southern Russia’s Stavropol Region, doctors at a local hospital told TASS. Shortly after the fire three people were sent to a…
WARRI, NIGERIA: Nigerian police on Saturday said many people were feared dead after a petrol tanker veered off the road, caught fire and exploded as people tried to recover fuel. The vehicle crashed in the Odukpani area of the southeastern…
The cause of the accident in the country’s northern Shaanxi province is being investigated. Twenty-one people have been killed after a roof collapsed at a coalmine in northern China. A total of 87 people were working underground in the mine…
A secondary blast injured 21 workers at the Aden oil refinery on Saturday evening as they fought to contain an earlier blaze which broke out the day before. On Friday, a storage tank holding 7000 tonnes of diesel caught alight at Aden's…
An explosion and fire near a chemical factory left at least 22 people dead and more dozens of others injured in the region of northern China set to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, authorities said. A subsequent fire destroyed 50…
A blast and fire at the Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh in eastern India killed eleven employees and injured 12 on October 9, police said. The explosion at the state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) plant took place in…
Belgian news sources reported that two aircraft technicians were injured when an F-16 fighter exploded at Florennes airbase in Namur province. The incident took place as the aircraft stood parked at the end of a runway and two other aircraft…
An intense series of explosions and a fast-moving fire ripped through an ammunition depot in Ukraine, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people and igniting suspicions of sabotage in a country mired in a simmering war with Russia-backed separatists. Authorities…
A powerful explosion has hit a Russian-owned oil refinery in northern Bosnia-Herzegovina, killing one worker and injuring nine, police say. Previous reports said eight people were injured in the October 9 explosion at the oil-processing plant in Bosanski Brod, near…
