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No fewer than 90 people were confirmed dead following a petrol tanker explosion in Majiya Town, Taura local government area of Jigawa State on Tuesday. Mr Shi’isu Adam, the Police Spokesperson in Jigawa, confirmed this in an interview with NAN on Wednesday. He also said that 50 other persons had been hospitalised for various degrees…
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At least six South Sudanese nationals were killed in a fire outbreak in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, a police spokesperson said here on Wednesday. A fire engulfed the residence of Bakita Atyang, a South Sudanese national at Mulanda B, Kisubi, resulting in the loss of six young lives at about 1:00 a.m. Wednesday, Luke…
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Angry farmers have started fires outside the European Parliament building in Brussels in protest against taxes, rising costs and cheap imports. About 1,000 tractors have blocked major routes through the city, police estimate, with one displaying a banner reading “if you love the Earth, support those who manage it”. Another banner read “no farmers, no…
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On January 20, Chinese state media reported that a fire that broke out in dorms at a boarding school for elementary students in central Henan province had killed 13 students. In an interview with Zonglan news, a state-backed media outlet from Hebei province, a teacher at Yingcai School in rural Fangcheng district, central Henan, said…
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The fire at Luton Airport car park was started accidentally due to a vehicle fault, Sky News understands. A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage in connection to the incident on 10 October. A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said: “Police arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of criminal…
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Two people are injured after Russia launched a three-and-a-half-hour drone attack on the southern parts of the Odesa region today and hit Danube River port infrastructure, Ukrainian officials have said. Ukraine’s air defence systems shot down 22 of the 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia launched on the Odesa region in the early hours, the…
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Emergency crews have been battling flames after a Russian drone barrage against port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region (see our post at 10.44am). Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, described the assault as part of a Russian drive “to provoke a food crisis and hunger in the world”. Moscow has not commented on the…
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France has banned the sale, possession and transport of all fireworks during the upcoming Bastille Day festivities. The government issued a decree on Sunday prohibiting “pyrotechnic articles” for the 14 July celebrations that mark France’s national day. The move comes after rioting sparked by last month’s police killing of 17-year-old Nahel M by police in…
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Television personality Sharon Osbourne is speaking out after her daughter Aimée Osbourne was among those who escaped a deadly fire at an industrial building in Hollywood, California that housed multiple recording studios. Aimée, who creates electropop music under the name ARO, was working with her producer at one of the recording studios Thursday afternoon when…
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Dozens of people have died in a fire in a large factory in Delhi. Fire engines streamed through the Indian capital to the blazing fire which had engulfed a five-storey building in the city’s old quarter early Sunday morning. It is understood a large number (60 to 70) of factory workers and contracted laborers were…
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At least seven people were killed and scores injured, mostly suffering burns, after two explosions at a natural gas depot in Ghana’s capital, fire service spokesman Billy Anaglate said on Sunday. The blasts on Saturday evening sent a giant fireball into the sky above the eastern part of Accra, causing frightened residents to flee their…
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The explosion which occurred at a packaging factory in Bangladesh last Saturday recorded a total of 15 deaths on first count. Over 70 people sustained various degrees of injuries. Subsequent reports confirmed the inferno in the Tongi industrial zone – about 20 km (12 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka – was caused by a boiler…
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June 28, 2016: Chengdu, Dujiangyan Qingcheng Mountain roads. A Ferrari traveling on a mountainous road in China caught fire after an explosion but the owner and passengers were able to escape the inferno. The supercar burnt to ashes within a very short time, before emergency services could reach the location to extinguish the fire.
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Singapore Airlines said Monday that there were no injuries when a jetliner caught fire after the plane returned to Changi Airport because of an engine warning. An airline statement said the Boeing 777-300ER, flight SQ368, departed Changi Airport for Milan on Monday when it turned back “following an engine oil warning message.” It said the…
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