Gas explosion

At least two people were killed and around 300 injured in a massive fire caused by a gas explosion in the Kenyan capital, a government spokesman said on Friday.

Two injured people, one a child, were taken to the hospital.
The police state that there is reason to believe that the explosion was caused intentionally. An unnamed police official told local media that witnesses saw two men running and getting into a car shortly before the explosion.

A chlorine gas explosion killed 12 people and injured more than 250 on Monday, authorities said, when a tank that fell from a crane released a poisonous yellow cloud at Jordan's Aqaba port.

Celje – An explosion at the main bus station in the city of Celje, north-east of Ljubljana, at around 12.30pm today was caused by a gas leakage and injured three people. While they were all taken to the local hospital, none of them has suffered serious injuries.

14 people were injured in a traditional cooking arts festival in the western German region of Siegerland, BTA reported.

Six of the injured were in serious condition and were rushed to specialist hospitals in the Ruhr region and Cologne by helicopters, police added.

Police say an explosion outside a neighborhood police station in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, has damaged the outside of the building but there were no injuries.

A road accident caused a large explosion and a fire near Bologna airport in northern Italy on Monday, police said, and local media reported some people had been injured.

Four people were killed in an explosion and fire at a three-storey building in the central English city of Leicester, police said on Feb. 26.

A natural gas explosion at a high school in the western Turkish province of İzmir killed one person and wounded four on the morning of Feb. 6.

At least two people were killed today and 55 were injured in a gas explosion at a dining venue in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, the world's information agencies said, referring to the authorities.