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The captain of a merchant ship east of Yemen's Aden has reported an explosion near the ship, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said early on Sunday. Months of Red Sea ...
United Kingdom: Bristol: 4 1 Avonmouth explosion – Explosion at a silo holding treated biosolids at a wastewater treatment plant. [125] 19 December 2020 Turkey: Gaziantep: 12 50 Gaziantep hospital fire – An oxygen ventilator exploded in an intensive care unit of the private Sanko University Hospital. [126] [127] [128] 23 December 2020 Pakistan
On 1 November 2017, the UK requested Libya to extradite Hashem to return to the United Kingdom, in order to face trial. [46] On 17 July 2019, Hashem was charged with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion. He had been arrested in Libya and extradited to the United Kingdom. [136] His trial began on 5 February 2020. [137]
The cause of the explosion is contested. Israel, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada said that their intelligence sources indicate the cause of the explosion was a failed rocket launch from within Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Hamas and PIJ stated the explosion was caused by an Israeli airstrike. [12]
The cause of the explosion was a fuel-air explosion in a vapour cloud of evaporated leaking petrol. The British Geological Survey monitored the event, which measured 2.4 on the Richter scale . [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 11 ] News reports described the incident as the biggest of its kind in peacetime Europe [ 12 ] and certainly the biggest such explosion in ...
Police at the scene of one of the raids, on Forest Road, Walthamstow, London The 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot was a terrorist plot to detonate liquid explosives, carried aboard airliners travelling from the United Kingdom to the United States and Canada, disguised as soft drinks. [1]
Explosion of the mine under Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, 1 July 1916. On the morning of 1 July 1916, a series of 19 mines of varying sizes was blown to start the Battle of the Somme. The explosions constituted what was then the loudest human-made sound in history, and could be heard in London.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2020 Beirut explosion Aftermath of the explosion, with the destroyed grain silos to the left and the flooded blast crater to the right. Date 4 August 2020 (2020-08-04) Time 18:08:18 EEST (UTC+03:00) Venue Port of Beirut Location Beirut, Lebanon Coordinates 33°54′05″N 35°31′09″E ...