QINYUAN, China (AP) — Authorities in northern China were investigating a coal mine operator with a focus on safety lapses, as rescuers searched for those missing in the country 's deadliest coal mine explosion in recent years that killed at least 82 people. An Associated Press reporter...
BEIJING (AP) – A gas explosion in a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province killed at least 90 people, state media said on Saturday, in the country’s deadliest mining accident in recent years. Official news agency Xinhua said the accident at Changzhi city’s Liushenyu coal mine...
Fourteen persons were injured in a suspected Improvised Explosive Device explosion in Baguio City on Monday, April 13. The Baguio City Police Office said a 32-year-old miner from Itogon, Benguet was allegedly drunk and committed acts of lasciviousness against a snack shop caretaker. Bystanders...
DAGUPAN CITY – Eleven persons were injured in an explosion that hit a popular restaurant here on Friday, March 12. The explosion was allegedly caused by a portable butane stove and caused panic among customers inside the establishment. Emergency responders and police officers secured the area and...
Police in Norway were investigating an explosion early Sunday outside the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, the capital of the Scandinavian country, officials said. No injuries were reported. Police received reports of a “loud bang” or explosion around 1 a.m., Oslo police said in a news release. The...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Government officials in Basilan province have strongly condemned the grenade-throwing incident that injured a laborer near the newly-constructed outlet of a known food chain on Tuesday evening in Lamitan City. “We strongly condemn the grenade-throwing incident in Barangay...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A laborer was injured in an explosion in a newly constructed fast food chain outlet in Lamitan City, Basilan on Tuesday evening, March 3. Police identified the victim as Rebel Antalas Masulog, 22, of Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur. A witness told police that he heard a loud...
CANDELARIA, Quezon – Nine individuals, including five minors, were injured in a firecracker explosion during the Birhen ng Caysasay procession in Barangay Masin Norte here on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 8. Police identified four victims as Ryan, 28; Gregorio, 50; Mylene, 49; and Maricel,38. The five...
UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — An explosion on a residential street in the center of the Dutch city of Utrecht injured at least four people Thursday, an emergency services official said. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. The explosion, which caused a fire and widespread damage, sent...
DAVAO CITY – One of the suspects in the New Year’s Eve grenade throwing incident in Barangay Dalapitan, Matalam town, Cotabato province was killed in a police hot pursuit operation on Thursday evening, Jan. 1. According to a report from the Cotabato Police Provincial Office, 22 persons were...
MATALAM, North Cotabato – Police authorities here have launched a province-wide manhunt for two men on a motorbike who lobbed a hand grenade at a roadside New Year’s Eve celebration, injuring at least 22 people. The revelers who sustained shrapnel wounds are now receiving treatment in various...
DAGUPAN CITY – Police said an illegal fireworks manufacturing and storage facility exploded in Barangay Bacayao Norte here on Christmas Day. Dagupan police chief Police Col. Orly Pagaduan said debris from a makeshift fireworks factory were discovered in the house. Two individuals were killed and...
