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On 12 January 2019, an explosion occurred 6 Rue de Trévise in 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. Two firefighters, a Spanish tourist, and another woman were killed, and forty-seven others were injured. [1] According to local prosecutor Remy Heitz, the apparent cause of the explosion was a gas leak. Firefighters were present at the time of ...
American Committee for Devastated France (1919–1924), also known as CARD (Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées de France), was a small group of American women who volunteered to help the French Third Republic recover from the destruction of The Great War [2] (later known as World War I) [3]
Steel girders were found 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) away from the explosion site. [3] The blast measured 3.4 on the Richter scale, [4] with an estimated power equivalent to 20-40 tons of TNT. [2] The explosion was heard 80 km (50 miles) away. [5] Due to the acoustics of the hills and the loud sound, the explosion was reported as occurring in ...
This has meant that the heads of wealthy regions such as Île-de-France or Rhône-Alpes can be high-profile positions. Proposals to give regions limited legislative autonomy have met with considerable resistance; others propose transferring certain powers from the departments to their respective regions, leaving the former with limited authority.
This is a list of French regions and overseas territories by Human Development Index as of 2022. [1] The regions since 2016 that the pre-2016 regions correspond to or are part of are shown alongside. Rank
Exhibition about the explosion in Cádiz, 2017. The Cádiz explosion was a military accident which occurred at 9:45 pm, on 18 August 1947 at a storage depot in the Base de Defensas Submarinas (Submarine Defence Base) in Cádiz, Spain, when some 1,737 sea mines, torpedoes and depth charges (of a total of 2,228 distributed in two depots), containing 200 tonnes of TNT and amatol, exploded for ...
France: Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque: 8 30 Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque explosion – a multi-family residential building was destroyed in an explosion. [188] [189] [190] 21 February 2022 Burkina Faso: Gbomblora: 59 100 Gbomblora explosion – Chemical explosion at a gold mine. [191] 20 April 2022 Poland: Pawłowice, Silesia 16 30
Four bomb attacks, against a post office in the Hôtel de Ville, a Casino caféteria in La Défense, a restaurant on the Champs-Élysées and an office in the Préfecture de police by the CSPPA and Hezbollah. [22] 17 September 1986: Bombing 7 55 Bomb attack against the Tati store on rue de Rennes in Paris, attributed to the CSPPA and Hezbollah. [1]