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Armenia: Five dead, dozens hurt in explosion at Sumarlu market

INTERNATIONAL Explosions have ripped through a fireworks warehouse in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, killing at least five people and injuring dozens more. Video footage from the Surmalu market on Sunday showed grey smoke billowing over a building and people scurrying away from the area. Rescue workers sifted through twisted metal and rubble in a search for survivors, as clouds of dust and smoke hung in the air. Bystanders helped […]

15 August 2022

International

Beirut explosion: Scars of the blast still run deep two years on

INTERNATIONAL Ritta Hanna’s life changed on 4 August 2020. The 45-year-old marketing manager of a local food import company was jogging in the district of Gemmayze, a few hundred metres away from Beirut port, when an explosion took place. “I was going back to my car when I heard a huge sound, everything suddenly got dark and I thought the entire country was about to vanish,” she recalls. The shock wave […]

5 August 2022

News

Workers linked Medupi explosion suspended- Eskom

NATIONAL Eskom has confirmed that workers responsible for the explosion at Medupi’s Unit four has been placed on precautionary suspension. According to the power utility, the explosion resulted in extensive damage to the Unit’s generator. The incident happened while workers were looking for an external leak. Eskom’s spokesperson, Sikonathi Mantshantsha, says it appears that workers didn’t follow the right procedures. VOCfm

10 August 2021

Local

BREAKING: Eskom confirms explosion at Medupi, no injuries reported

Power utility Eskom has confirmed that an explosion occurred at unit 4 of Medupi power station on Saturday night. While no injuries have been reported, emergency services attended to seven employees for shock. All employees and contractors have been accounted for, said Eskom. The incident is thought to have caused unit 5 to trip. In a statement on Sunday morning, Eskom said the explosion took place at 22:50 on Saturday. It said […]

9 August 2021

International News

Three Palestinian fishermen killed in explosion off Gaza coast

Three Palestinian fishermen have been killed in a blast off the coast of Gaza, local media and the head of Gaza’s fishermen syndicate said. The official WAFA news agency quoted sources as saying the three men had died on Sunday as a result of a “mysterious explosion”. Nizar Ayyash, head of Gaza’s fishermen union, told the QNN news website that the three men, all members of the same family, died […]

7 March 2021

International News

‘External source’ causes oil tanker blast off Saudi Arabia

An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah has been hit by an unidentified “external source” that caused a fire and an explosion, a shipping company said, suggesting another vessel has come under attack off the kingdom amid its years-long war in Yemen. In a statement on Monday, shipping company Hafnia said all 22 sailors on board the Singapore-flagged BW Rhine escaped without injury. The company warned it […]

14 December 2020

Local

Activists react to Wentworth Engen Oil Refinery explosion

A non-profit environmental justice service organisation known as groundWork together with the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance say they have previously called for the Engen Oil Refinery in Wentworth south of Durban to shut down. It says the explosion that happened on Friday morning was not unexpected. Seven people are now confirmed to have been injured and the fire has since been contained. The refinery is located in the highly […]

4 December 2020

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Saudi Arabia: Four wounded after blast strikes cemetery for non-Muslims

Four people were wounded in an explosion on Wednesday at the non-Muslim cemetery in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah during a ceremony commemorating the armistice marking the end of World War 1. The event at the coastal city's Khawajaat Cemetery included diplomats from several European countries. It is not clear if any officials present were among those wounded. The annual ceremony commemorating the end of the First World War at the non-Muslim […]

12 November 2020

International News

Several dead in blast at religious school in Pakistan’s Peshawar

An explosion at a religious school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least seven people and wounded 109 others, police and health officials say. The blast occurred at the Speen Jamaat mosque, which also serves as a religious school for the local community in the city’s Dir Colony area, at 8:30am local time (3:30 GMT) on Tuesday, a police official told Al Jazeera shortly after the […]

27 October 2020

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