Explosion News

Seven passengers were killed and one was injured when a bus exploded in Myanmar's main city Yangon early Monday morning, a police official said.

Suicide car bombers struck twice Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

Lebanese authorities arrested members of a "terrorist network" suspected of involvement in deadly bomb attacks in the northern city of Tripoli, the army said.

A San Jose home being rebuilt after burning in a fire has been struck again by flames that also heavily damaged two neighboring homes.

Nine people were killed and 13 others injured in a car bomb explosion in a marketplace in southwestern Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.

The manager of the plant that was the site of a deadly explosion in Institute has apologized to residents for not better communicating with emergency responders after the blast.

A second person has died of injuries suffered during an August explosion at the Bayer CropScience plant in Institute.

A leaky natural gas pipe blamed for a Sept. 2 house explosion in Fargo was the same kind involved in a blast three years ago in Cottage Grove, Minn.

Kannur , Oct 11 A daylong shutdown was called by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in a town in Kerala's northern Kannur district Saturday after the killing of an RSS activist.

A Con Edison worker who died in a manhole explosion asked for a transfer to a less dangerous job two weeks ago.

George Dillman was killed in the blast in Brooklyn's East New York section on Thursday while he and another worker were splicing high-voltage cable about 10 feet underground.

The co-worker, 28-year-old Craig Penney, suffered minor injuries and was able to climb out of the manhole.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.

The 26-year-old Con Ed worker consulted his father, master electrician Raymond Dillman, before putting in for a switch to a supervisor position. The elder Dillman says the job that killed his son involves not only high voltage, but also mold and rats.

Two Palestinians have been killed in an explosion in a smuggling tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border, police and hospital officials said Saturday.

One man is dead, and another has been critically hurt, after a balloon slammed into power lines during the annual hot air balloon fiesta today in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal leaders in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, officials said.

A balloon slammed into power lines during Albuquerque's annual hot air balloon fiesta Friday, setting off an explosion that sent burning debris flying as the apparatus disintegrated, authorities and witnesses ...

PoliceA questioned two men in their 20s in connection with an apparent pipe bomb explosion in San Francisco's Bayview District earlyA Friday morning, a police sergeant said.

A vehicle involved in a roadside bomb is seen next to a river after an explosion in the Dir region near Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thursday Oct.

A suspected suicide bomber in Sri Lanka has killed at least one person in an attack apparently targeting a government minister, officials say.

A British soldier has told an inquest how he believed downdraft from a rescue helicopter in Afghanistan set off a mine which killed a colleague.

A coalition of environmental groups wants Bayer to dismantle stockpiles of chemicals it says are so deadly they present a safety risk to residents near a southwestern West Virginia plant that was the site of a ...

The New York Police Department says a manhole explosion in Brooklyn has left one utility worker dead and another injured.