At least 15 people were injured after a gas explosion and fire on Thursday afternoon in the Village of Wappingers Falls, New York. Five of the individuals are first responders – one firefighter and four police officers – and of the other 10,…
A huge fire burned near university campuses in Madrid after a gas explosion on Tuesday, 24 October. Students were evacuated from dormitories but Madrid emergency services said there were no injuries. A building of the Complutense University was also evacuated according to…
A huge fire broke out at a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on Monday, injuring at least 38 people before it was put out, according to the health ministry. No fatalities were immediately reported but the building was…
Two powerful explosions ripped through apartment buildings in central Sweden, injuring at least three people. Late on Monday, an explosion occurred in Hasselby, a suburb of the capital, Stockholm. In the early hours of Tuesday, a blast in Linkoping, some…
At least 20 people were killed in an explosion at a fuel depot in zerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, local Armenian authorities said. They added 290 people were admitted to hospitals, dozens of them "still in critical condition". Thousands of ethnic Armenians had…
A gas explosion at a highway construction site in Romania early Thursday killed four people and injured five, emergency authorities said. The blast happened around 1 a.m. near the eastern town of Calimanesti, said the emergency office in a statement.…
At least eight people were injured in an explosion on Sunday at a processing plant in Illinois, officials say. The blast occurred at an Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) plant in Decatur at around 7.11pm, a spokesperson for the company said. It is still…
A train car carrying toxic acid at a Nebraska railyard exploded and caught fire, leading to evacuations within a four-mile radius due to the release of “heavy toxic smoke”. Emergency crews later contained the railcar fire that occurred on Thursday near North…
The city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves, Libyan officials said Thursday, as search teams scoured ruins left by devastating floods and the city’s mayor said that the death toll could triple or more. The deluge swept…
At least 63 people, including a toddler, have died in a fire in a multi-storey building in Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, emergency services have said. Emergency Management Services said a further 43 people were injured in the blaze, which…