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[2] [3] Locals who were buying vegetables or having breakfast at the market were trapped by the explosion. [4] [5] [6] The explosion resulted in 25 deaths and 138 injuries (including 37 serious injuries). [7]
Explosion of an oil tanker that also set two motorcycles, five cars, and three tricycles on fire. [116] 28 September 2020 China: Tianmen: 5 1 Explosion during the testing of new equipment at a chemical plant in Yuekou Industrial park. [117] 8 October 2020 Nigeria: Lagos: 8 Unknown An explosion at a gas station burned down 25 homes and 16 shops ...
Chinese scientists subsequently estimated that the second more powerful explosion involved the detonation of about 800 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, based on crater size and lethality radius (336 tons TNT equivalent, based on relative effectiveness factor of 0.42). [4] One month after the explosion, official reports listed 173 deaths and 797 ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. ... 2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion; P. 2024 Pingdingshan mining explosion; T. 2015 Tianjin explosions; W.
The 21 March 2019 explosion occurred at a local time of 14:48 [13] [14] (06:48 GMT). Seventy-eight people were killed, [1] and at least 94 were severely injured, [5] 32 of whom were critically injured. [4] Around 640 people required hospital treatment and were taken to 16 hospitals. [15] [16] [4] The injured included children at a local ...
In “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” Adam Higginbotham provides the most definitive account of the explosion that took the lives of the seven-person crew.
An explosion caused by the ignition of coal dust at the Miike coal mine in Kyushu, Japan. 458 people were killed by the explosion or by carbon monoxide poisoning. 839 others were injured. [63] May 28, 1965: Dhanbad coal mine disaster, Jharkhand, India. Over 300 miners killed. May 1, 1966: Vratsa dam failure, Zgorigrad, People's Republic of ...
Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia broke apart upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven ...