An explosion at Marcoule nuclear plant in France killing one person and injuring four. ...
09:28 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Paris: One person died and another was seriously injured in an explosion on Monday in a site that treats nuclear waste in southern France, the country's nuclear safety body said, adding that no radioactive leaks have been detected. The Nuclear Safety Authority said three other people suffered lesser injuries in the blast at an oven in the Centraco nuclear site. The Centraco site is located next to another nuclear site,...
05:33 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Kiev: An explosion at a Ukrainian coal mine killed at least 17 miners on Friday, the Emergencies Ministry said, the latest in a series of accidents that has raised concern over safety standards in the industry. Two miners were injured in the explosion at the Sukhodilska-Eastern mine in the Luhansk region in the former Soviet republic's coal mining heartland, and nine were missing. The blast early on Friday at the...
02:25 AM, Jul 30, 2011
On 'The Last Word' Karan Thapar examine the speculation post terror attacks. ...
10:42 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Oslo: Norwegian police on Thursday ended a six-day search for bodies on the island where Anders Behring Breivik shot dead 68 people, and said they were increasingly certain he acted alone. Breivik, 32, killed a total of 76 people, in a bomb attack in central Oslo and then in the shooting rampage at the island summer camp for the ruling Labour Party's youth wing. "The search at Utoeya (island) has...
12:52 AM, Jul 29, 2011
Oslo: When Anders Behring Breivik launched his assault on the youth campers of Utoya Island, he expected Norway's special forces to swoop down and stop him at any minute. Instead, Delta Force police officers made the 25-mile journey by car - they have no helicopter - then had to be rescued by a civilian craft when their boat broke down as it tried to navigate a one-minute hop to the...
03:40 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Oslo: Police announced on Monday that they had dramatically over-counted the number of people slain in a shooting spree at a political youth group's island retreat and were lowering the confirmed death toll from 86 to 68. The overall toll in the attack now stands at 76 instead of 93; still one of the worst modern mass murders in peacetime. Police spokesman Oystein Maeland said that higher, erroneous figure emerged...
07:59 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: Anders Behring Breivik told a Norwegian judge on Monday his bombing and shooting rampage that killed scores aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that "two more cells" existed in his organisation. Breivik's remarks at the closed-door custody hearing were relayed by the judge, Kim Heger, at a news conference. The killer has previously said he acted alone and police had earlier said they were trying...
03:04 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Oslo: At least 100,000 people rallied in Oslo and tens of thousands more marched in cities across Norway on Monday in a nationwide expression of grief and unity over the massacre of 76 people by Anders Behring Breivik. Breivik told a judge in a closed hearing on Monday his bombing and shooting rampage aimed to save Europe from a Muslim takeover, and said that "two more cells" existed in his...
02:23 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Neslandet: Norwegian teenagers at a lakeside summer camp fled screaming in panic, many leaping into the water to save themselves, when an attacker dressed as a policeman began spraying them with gunfire. Police said at least 10 of the youngsters, attending a camp run by the governing Labour Party, were killed in Friday's attack, shortly after a blast in the capital Oslo killed seven people in Western Europe's worst bombing...
11:26 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Stockholm: The 32-year-old suspected of massacring at least 80 young people at a summer camp and setting off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed at least seven is a mystery to investigators - a right-winger with anti-Muslim views but no known links to hardcore extremists. "He just came out of nowhere," a police official told The Associated Press. Public broadcaster NRK and several other Norwegian media identified the suspected...
11:04 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Melbourne: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has condemned as "brutal and shocking" twin shooting and bomb attacks in Norway. "Australia condemns the brutal and shocking attacks which occurred in Norway overnight," Gillard said. The government confirmed that there were no reports of any Australian believed to be dead or injured. Gillard said Norway was a good friend and partner of Australia. "Our sorrow and concern are with the people of...
10:41 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Sundvollen: The man in the police uniform shouted for the campers to come closer. When they did, he killed them. The gunman who killed at least 80 people at an island youth camp northwest of Oslo used his disguise to lure in his victims, then shot them twice to make sure they were dead, survivors said in the village of Sundvollen, where they were taken after the massacre. "I saw...
10:23 AM, Jul 23, 2011
London: Security experts say suspicion is likely to fall on both Islamists and right-wing extremists following a deadly bombing and a shooting at a political gathering in tranquil Norway. It was not clear if the attacks were linked, but the possibility of a complex, hybrid assault makes it difficult to make an early call as to the likely political orientation of the assailants, security experts said. A big bomb damaged...
02:11 AM, Jul 23, 2011
Oslo: A bomb ripped through Oslo's central government district on Friday killing seven people, police said, and hours later a gunman opened fire at a youth camp on a nearby island. One witness said he saw 20 dead at the youth camp, but police said they had no confirmation of deaths on the island. "I've seen it with my own eyes, at least 20 dead people lying in the water,"...
07:28 PM, Jul 22, 2011
Srinagar: At least six people were injured on Wednesday when an explosive device went off in south Kashmir's Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. "Six people have been injured in the explosion but all of them are out of danger. The explosion has probably been caused by a grenade left in the area after a recent encounter," Senior Superintendent of Police for Pulwama Amit Kumar told PTI. Two...
03:18 PM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: A low intensity blast was reported from the parking lot outside gate number 7 of the Delhi High Court on Wednesday - one of the most well secured areas in the capital. The explosion was caused by a crude explosive packed in a polythene placed right next to a Ford car which belongs to a lawyer. Delhi Police said that it was low intensity blast and crude explosive...
02:04 PM, May 25, 2011
San Juan de Sabinas: A gas explosion in a coal mine in northern Mexico on Tuesday killed three miners, injured one and left 11 others trapped deep underground. Officials said chances were slim that anyone could have survived the massive blast. Dozens of weeping relatives of the miners gathered outside the small, recently opened mine in San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila state, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) southwest of Eagle...
09:27 AM, May 04, 2011
Karachi: At least 19 people were killed and around 45 injured in an explosion at an illegal gambling den in Pakistan's commercial capital, which was also attacked by some armed men, in one of the city's old areas, Ghas Mandi. The health minister of the Sindh province, Sagheer Ahmed put the number of casualties at 16 but "Express" news channel reported 19 people had been killed in the explosion. A...
09:20 AM, Apr 22, 2011
