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Blast near Israel embassy: Police record statements of 'witnesses'

Delhi Police on Thursday recorded the statements of some people who claimed to have heard the explosion near the Israeli embassy, an official said. Police have also prepared a list of people who were seen near the spot just before the low-intensity blast occurred on Tuesday with the help of footage taken from CCTV cameras, he said. The statements of at least 10 people, including security guards and passersby who claimed to have heard the explosion and also saw some smoke, have been recorded, the official said. With the help of dump data from mobile phones active near the spot and CCTV camera footage, a few people have been identified and some of them were questioned on Thursday, the officer added. According to another officer, the components of the explosive will be ascertained once the forensic reports come. The samples from the leaves and soil from the spot were collected by forensic experts from the National Security Group (NSG) and Delhi Police on Wednesday. "Their reports ar

More than 40 people dead in Liberia after leaking fuel tanker explodes

A leaking fuel tanker exploded as people gathered to collect the gasoline, leaving more than 40 dead, authorities in Liberia said Thursday. The blast on Tuesday also injured at least 83 people in Totota town in the central part of the West African country, health officials said. Bong County health official Dr. Cynthia Blapook said many of the dead were buried in a mass grave on Wednesday because their remains were unrecognizable. Health authorities said an exact death toll was difficult because of how badly the bodies were burned. Liberian Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor attended the mass funeral. We never expected to start the new year like this, Howard-Taylor said. Health officials said the number of injured could rise as they were not certain everyone had been brought for care. A doctor at one hospital treating the injured urged the Liberian government to deploy a disaster management team and to have one in each county to respond to emergencies. Dr. Minnie Sankawolo-Rocks

One dead, another injured after mortar shell explodes in Jammu and Kashmir

Speaking to ANI, Benam Tosh, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Samba said that a man was killed and another was injured after a mortar shell explosion

At least 11 dead, 88 badly injured after massive fuel depot blast in Guinea

An explosion and inferno at Guinea's main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry left at least 11 people dead and more than 80 seriously injured, authorities said Monday, as the West African country awaited help from other nations and the death toll was expected to rise. The massive explosion sparked the fire at the Guinean Petroleum Company depot after midnight Sunday, Guinea's presidency said. It caused significant damage in the heart of the Kaloum administrative district, home to most government offices. At least 88 people sustained serious injuries, said Lt Col Jean Traor, technical director of Guinea's Civil Protection Service. This assessment is only provisional, he told reporters. It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion at the depot that supplies most of the fuel in Guinea. The depot had been in the process of being relocated to a remote site in a bid to avoid such a disaster. There are now fears of a major supply disruption as the country relies on imported ...

9 killed in blast at Nagpur explosives manufacturing unit, protest erupts

Nine people were killed in a blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Maharashtra's Nagpur district on Sunday, police said. The blast took place at 9 am in a cast booster unit of the Solar Industries in Bazaargaon area, a senior police official told PTI. Nine people were killed, he said. The explosives used in coal mining blast were manufactured at the factory, as per sources. The work of packaging explosives was on when the blast occurred, they said.

Karnataka HC grants 2-week parole to convict in church blast case

A convict serving life imprisonment in the church blast case has been granted parole by the High Court of Karnataka for two weeks. The detenue, Mohammed Akhil, is one of the convicts in the July 2000 church blast case in Bengaluru. Twenty four accused belonging to the Deendar Anjuman sect were found guilty of the blasts that were triggered in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Goa. Akhil was one of the 13 handed a life sentence. Mubeen Unnissa Begum, wife of Akhil, had filed the petition, which was heard by Justice M Nagaprasanna. "The convict, as of today, has undergone 23 years of imprisonment without remission and has not been granted parole throughout 23 years. The wife of the convict is now before this court seeking enlargement of her husband on parole on the score that she is suffering from ailments and, therefore, pleads that the presence of her husband is very much required in the family as other family members are also aged and suffering from ailments," the court noted in its ..

Explosion rocks hydrocarbon refinery in Iran's special economic zone

Rescue teams have temporarily withdrawn from the spot due to the constant threat of further explosions. No casualties have been reported in the incident, according to IRNA report

Five killed, over 20 injured in a blast in Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan

As per initial media reports, the explosive device was planted on a motorbike

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Man who claimed responsibility for Kerala blasts 'brilliant': Police

Dominic Martin, who had voluntarily surrendered to police claiming responsibility for the blasts at a Christian prayer meet two days ago, was on Tuesday described as a "brilliant mind" by investigating officers. He left behind a lucrative job in the Gulf, which left many questioning his motives. Police had on Monday formally recorded the arrest of Martin who had surrendered a few hours after the blasts on Sunday morning. On Tuesday, the Special Investigation Team took Martin to his residence at Athani near Aluva here, where the explosive devices were suspected to have been assembled, in pursuit of crucial evidence. Over the course of several hours, Martin provided a detailed account of the construction process, using the materials he claimed to have used in last Sunday's explosion that claimed three lives and left over 50 injured. When Martin surrendered before the police on Sunday, he had produced bills for the purchased materials, further strengthening the case against him, ...

Kerala blast: Who are Jehovah's Witnesses?

On Sunday morning in Kerala's Ernakulam district, multiple explosions occurred at a Jehovah's Witnesses prayer meeting, killing 3 and injuring others.

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Kerala blast: Amit Shah speaks to Kerala CM; NSG, NIA teams being sent

One person died and over 20 were injured in a blast at a convention centre in Kalamassery here on Sunday morning, police said. An officer of Kalamassery police said the cause of the blast or whether there was more than one was not confirmed. The blast reportedly occurred at a convention centre of a Christian group. He said a call was received around 9 am about the blast and seeking police assistance. Visuals of the incident on TV channels showed fire rescue and police personnel in large numbers evacuating people from the site. Disturbing visuals of the blast inside the convention centre showed multiple fires inside the hall as people were screaming in fear. Hundreds of people were seen outside the convention centre post the explosion.

Kerala blasts: Veena George puts hospitals on alert, orders staff to return

In the explosions that took place in the morning hours, one person died and many were feared injured, during the prayer meeting at a convention centre in Kalamassery

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Seems Gaza hospital strike 'done by other team': Biden tells Netanyahu

'Based on what I have seen, it was done by the other team, not you,' US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday

After blast kills hundreds at Gaza hospital, Hamas and Israel trade blame

The Israeli military says it had no involvement in an explosion that killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital and that the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike caused the blast, and that it killed some 500 people, many of whom had sought shelter from an ongoing Israeli offensive. The Israeli military, however, said Palestinian militants had fired a barrage of rockets near the hospital at the time.

Arab leaders' summit with Joe Biden called off after Gaza hospital blast

A huge explosion at a Gaza hospital has derailed the diplomatic efforts led by the US to mobilise support for "Israel's right to defend itself" with a summit meeting between American President Joe Biden and other leaders in Jordan's Amman being called off. Hundreds of people are feared dead after a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza for which Hamas and Israel traded charges holding each other responsible for the incident. Biden is scheduled to arrive in Israel on Wednesday on a solidarity visit to express support for Israel. Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi announced that Biden's summit in Amman scheduled to take place on Wednesday with Jordan's King Abdullah, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been cancelled. Biden has been backing Israeli calls for eliminating Hamas following the attacks carried out by it on Israel on October 7 in which more than 1,300 people were killed and between 200 and 250 Israelis are said to

Afghanistan: 7 killed, 15 injured in suicide attack at mosque in Baghlan

Reports have claimed that Taliban members arrived at the spot following the explosion

Death toll rises to 12 in Tamil Nadu's Ariyalur cracker unit blast

A massive fire broke out at around 10.20 pm on Monday after an explosion at the godown of the cracker unit situated in Vetriyur Viragalur village of the Ariyalur district