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2024 Portugal wildfires. Twelve people are arrested on suspicion of arson resulting in widespread wildfires in Northern and Central Portugal that have killed at least seven people. Law and crime. 2024 Shenzhen stabbing. A 10-year-old Japanese student is killed in a stabbing near his school in Shenzhen, China. 2024 Armenian coup attempt allegations
On the night of 17–18 September 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) 107th arsenal ammunition depot in Toropets, causing a massive series of explosions and fires and shattering of windows across nearby towns.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks Part of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present) Remnants of a Hezbollah pager that exploded on September 17, 2024 Location Lebanon and Syria Date 17–18 September 2024 Target Hezbollah members Weapons Pagers (Day 1) Walkie-talkies (Day 2) Deaths 42 ...
The blast hurled steel beams as long as 15 metres into fields hundreds of metres away and left a crater 70 metres wide and 23 metres deep. The explosion occurred when factory workers tried to separate big chunks of newly arrived ammonium nitrate (200 t) using dynamite, after failing to do so using regular tools. In total, 189 people died and ...
All of the workers were either at blocks B or C of the mine during the explosion. During the initial rescue, large amounts of methane gas were discharged within both blocks. The emission rate was greater in Block B, where rescuers were unable to enter. [9] Forty-seven workers were in Block B and 22 were in Block C during the explosion. [10]
The mushroom cloud produced by the explosion. The truck was transporting 42.5 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive fertiliser. [4] Following the crash the truck caught fire and the driver was pulled from the truck by bystanders. Ammonium nitrate leaked onto the Bruce Highway, a major highway in Queensland. [5]
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On February 1, 2024, a gas explosion in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi occurred due to an unlicensed cooking gas-filling plant, killing at least 3 people and injured 280 others. [59] On December 29, 2024, a gas explosion at the Police Academy in Cairo, Egypt, killed 3 police officers and injured 2 others. [60]