Tag: Explosions

Nepal on high alert for general strike after explosions

KATHMANDU: Security forces in Nepal are on high alert amid a general strike called by an outlawed communist group suspected in a series of explosions that...

Device near New Jersey train station explodes as FBI investigates

A suspicious device found in a trash can near a New Jersey train station exploded early Monday as a bomb squad was attempting to...

PM Sharif phones Modi, expresses shock over deaths in temple explosions

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday telephoned his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and expressed his shock and grief over the death of 100 people...

37 killed in southern Beirut suburb explosions

At least 37 people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday in two suicide bomb blasts in a crowded district in Beirut’s southern suburbs,...

Explosions rock Burundi capital as deadly protests continue

Two explosions shook Burundi's capital on Friday but no one was hurt, police and a witness said, as deadly unrest against President Pierre Nkurunziza's...

Six security men martyred in Mansehra, Kurram explosions

At least four security men were killed in an explosion targeting a convoy of security forces in Warmagai area of Kurram tribal region while two policemen including an additional SHO were killed in an explosion near Lorry Adda located on Karakoram Road in Mansehra on Tuesday.

Multiple explosions rock Karachi, other Sindh cities

Two crackers target rail tracks in Jamshoro, third strikes in heart of Hyderabad city A number of small intensity bombs exploded at multiple locations in...

Five killed in mortar explosions near tribal belt

At least five persons including a woman and two children were killed and several others injured as a result of explosions at Buner and...

Multiple explosions rock Karachi

Three explosions struck central locations in the country’s financial hub on Saturday, damaging property but causing no loss of life. According to Karachi police,...

Multiple explosions rock city

Three explosions struck central locations in the city including a grenade attack on a police van and a remote-controlled bomb blast outside the office...

CD shops blown up in Charsadda

Unidentified militants on Thursday blew up two compact disc (CD) shops in Charsadda while a blast occurred outside a house in Khyber Agency. According to...

Six die in Iraq bomb explosions

At least six people have died and almost 60 have been injured after a series of blasts involving three car bombs and a roadside...

Explosions rock churches in northern Nigerian city: agency

Explosions hit two churches in the restive northern Nigerian city of Zaria Sunday, in the latest violence in the region, emergency services and residents...

150 killed in Congo munitions depot blasts: EU diplomat

At least 150 people were killed in a series of explosions at a munitions depot in the Congolose capital of Brazzaville early Sunday, a...

Both Nawaz, Benazir were against nuclear explosions

Revelations made by WikiLeaks about the US diplomatic cables have suggested that the Pakistani leadership, then prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the opposition leader,...

Explosions rock Tripoli

Two powerful blasts thought to be caused by an air attack rocked Tripoli early Wednesday as a NATO warplane flew over the city. The explosions...

Two volunteers dead in Mohmand IED explosions

At least two volunteers of a local peace committee were killed and 10 others, including personnel of security forces, were injured in improvise explosive...