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On 2 April 1916, an explosion blew through the gunpowder mill at Uplees, near Faversham, Kent, when 200 tons of TNT ignited. 105 people died in the explosion. The munitions factory was next to the Thames estuary , and the explosion was heard across the estuary as far away as Norwich , Great Yarmouth , and Southend-on-Sea , where domestic ...
On January 30, 2007, the Little General convenience store on 2964 Flat Top Road was destroyed when a 500-gallon (1,892-liter) propane tank began to leak during maintenance. A high-pressure jet of propane burst upwards from the canister and vaporized upon contact with air, entering the store and finding an ignition source; the subsequent explosion destroyed the tank and leveled the store.
British pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Bulwark destroyed due to a magazine explosion 700: 17 August 1989: Iraqi military plant with facilities explode at Al Hillah, Babil, Iraq 621: 27 February 1925: Explosion of a dynamite depot in Brazil. [13] 600+ 28 March 1943: Explosion of the Caterina Costa, at port of Naples; over 3000 were also injured 590
Mar. 14—By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph GHENT — A fiery crash at a turnpike tollbooth in Raleigh County resulted in three confirmed deaths, a trooper with the West Virginia State ...
Attorney General of Alabama Steve Marshall speaks to members of the press after the oral argument of the Merrill v. Milligan case at the U.S. Supreme Court on 4 October 4 2022 in Washington, DC ...
A day before the explosion, Katherine Robertson, the chief counsel for the attorney general, said in a statement that Marshall’s office “has no intention of using the recent Alabama Supreme ...
An explosion at an oil facility of the state-run NNCP company. [101] 14 June 2020 China: Wenling: 19 170+ A fuel tanker crashed and exploded. Several buildings were severely damaged. [102] 21 June 2020 Ukraine: Kyiv: 5 5 Gas explosion in a residential building. [103] The explosion was caused by negligence during verification of gas counters ...
The fatal explosion involved at most a few tonnes of explosive. A larger explosion of about 80 tonnes of ammonium nitrate emulsion, ANE, an emulsion of ammonium nitrate, fuel and water, UN 3375) was caused by fires under storage facilities at the site at 11:02 AM. There were no fatalities in the second explosion because the site had been evacuated.