A suspected gas leak explosion at a building in northern China has killed at least two people and injured 26 more, according to officials. An explosion ripped through a restaurant in China's Hebei province, killing two people and injuring 26 more, state media reported Wednesday. The explosion occurred around 8 a.m. (0000 GMT) Wednesday in Sanhe, a city about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the capital Beijing, state broadcaster CCTV News reported. The injured were taken to the hospital, CCTV said. The explosion occurred at a fried chicken restaurant and is suspected to have been caused by a gas leak, the broadcaster reported. Devastating explosion Earlier, the local Langfang fire department said it had sent 36 vehicles and 154 people to the scene, adding that the fire was under control and rescue efforts were underway. Videos posted on social media platform Weibo showed a large orange fireball over the site. It was followed by thick plumes of gray smoke. The video clips showed shattered building facades, dozens of mangled cars, and glass scattered on surrounding streets. Some objects were burning. Deadly accidents in China Explosions and other deadly accidents are a common occurrence in China due to lax safety standards and a lack of enforcement. Last month, a fire at an apartment building in the eastern city of Nanjing killed at least 15 people and injured 44. In January, dozens died after a fire broke out at a shop in the central city of Xinyu, with the state news agency Xinhua reporting that the blaze was caused by the "illegal" use of fire by workers in the shop's basement. That same month, more than a dozen people were killed when a dormitory at a school in central China went up in flames.

Three dead  killed as a bus overturned in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur on Friday morning (March 8). At least 30 people were injured in the incident.  The accident took place at Babnatala bus stand on the Dhaka-Barisal highway. Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of Bhanga Highway Police Station,  Abu Sayeed, confirmed the matter. According to the information, fire service personnel and highway police rushed to the spot and rescued the injured and admitted them to Bhanga Hospital. Bhanga Fire Service Station Manager Abu Jafar said the car bus of Imran Travels was going to Dhaka from Barisal. The bus lost control on the road and overturned. The injured were taken to Bhanga Hospital.

The bus fell off a bridge en route to neighboring Burkina Faso, carrying both locals and foreigners. Road accidents are common in Mali, with roads and vehicles suffering from poor conditions. A bus fell off a bridge in southeastern Mali on Tuesday, killing 31 people, the Transport Ministry said. "The provisional toll is 31 killed on the spot and 10 injured, some of them seriously," the ministry said. What we know about the crash The bus was en route to neighboring Burkina Faso when it "overturned," the Transport Ministry said in a statement on Facebook. It crashed near the western town of Kenieba around 5 p.m. local time (1700 GMT). The accident occurred at a bridge crossing the Bagoe River, the ministry said. The victims included Malians and citizens from other West African countries, it added. "The probable cause was the driver's failure to control the vehicle," the ministry said. Road accidents are common in Mali and West Africa, where many roads and vehicles suffer from poor conditions.

A man was killed and 10 others were injured as seven bogies of a train derailed at Bankharia near Gazipur Railway Station early today (December 13). The deceased was identified as Aslam Hossain, 35, a poultry businessman from Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh. Joydevpur Railway Police Station sub-inspector Shahidullah Hero confirmed the matter. "Train communication between Joydebpur and Mymensingh remained suspended following the derailment," Shahidullah said. Police are investigating whether it is an accident or an act of sabotage, he added.  Police and local people told that the incident occurred as miscreants cut off the rail tracks. 

Police officials said the blast took place in Hussainabad area of the district in which a camp of labourers of a construction company was targeted. The company is constructing a road in the area. Soon after the blast, police and personnel of other security forces rushed to the site and shifted the injured to the district hospital where one of them succumbed to his injuries. He was identified as Saddam Hussain Khosa who received multiple injuries in the powerful blast. The injured included police constables Usman Ali and Mehtab Ali and labourer Dahib Khan Jigrani. “The condition of three injured is stated to be serious who were shifted to La­­rkana in Sindh for treatment,” SP Sohbatpur Khadim Hussain told Dawn, adding that un­known miscreants used a time bomb which went off near the camp of labourers. Further investigation was in progress, he added. Security forces launch­­ed a search operation in the area to arrest the elements involved in the bomb attack. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast so far.   Source: DAWN

An eruption at Mount Marapi killed 11, and three others were rescued. With 12 people still missing, the search team suspended their efforts on Monday due to another small eruption. Search teams working through the night rescued three people on Monday following a volcanic eruption that killed 11 hikers in western Indonesia. Twelve people are still missing.  Mount Marapi on the island of Sumatra erupted on Sunday, spewing an ash tower 3,000 meters high, which rained volcanic debris onto nearby villages. The peak is 2,891 meters (9,484 feet) high.  Authorities raised the alert to the second-highest level and prohibited residents from going within 3 kilometers of the crater. Local disaster agency official Ade Setiawan said in a statement that residents in local villages were "given masks and reminded to stay inside their houses." Search suspended Video footage showed a huge cloud of volcanic ash spread widely across the sky while cars and roads were covered in ash. Jodi Haryawan, spokesperson for the search and rescue team, said the search had to be suspended because of a small eruption on Monday. "It's too dangerous if we continue searching now," he said. Search teams found the 11 dead near the crater on Monday morning. "There are 26 people who have not been evacuated, we have found 14 of them, three were found alive and 11 were found dead," Abdul Malik, head of Padang Search and Rescue Agency told reporters on Monday. Malik said the three survivors were found near the crater, and "their condition was weak, and some had burns." Rescue workers had to take turns carrying down the dead, due to the difficult terrain. He added that 49 people had climbed down from the mountain, some of which had to be taken to the hospital. "Some suffered from burns because it was very hot, and they have been taken to the hospital. Those who are injured were the ones who got closer to the crater," Rudy Rinaldi, head of the West Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency told AFP news agency.  Indonesia lies in the Pacific Ring of Fire, where the meeting of continental plates causes high volcanic and seismic activity. It has nearly 130 active volcanoes.  

Two persons were killed and 10 others, including three Pakistan army soldiers, were injured in a suicide attack on a convoy of security forces in the Baka Khel area of Bannu district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan-based Dawn reported citing the military's media affairs wing. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that a "motorcycle-borne suicide bomber" detonated himself at a security forces convoy on Sunday. According to ISPR, the bomber was affiliated with the Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group and "later identified as an Afghan national". According to ISPR, two civilians were killed while seven civilians and three soldiers were wounded in the attack. The ISPR said that a sanitisation operation is being conducted to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area, according to Dawn report. The ISPR said that eight terrorists were killed in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Sararogha area of Pakistan's South Waziristan, Dawn reported. Two soldiers were killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on a security forces convoy in the Razmak area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's North Waziristan district. Notably, Pakistan has witnessed a rise in terrorist attacks in recent months, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan after the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan ended its ceasefire with the Pakistan government in 2022. In a report released in October, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) said that 386 security personnel lost their lives in the first nine months of 2023, reaching an eight-year high, Geo News reported. In the third quarter of 2023, some 445 people were killed and 440 others were injured from 190 terror attacks and counter-terror operations, Geo News reported. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan remained the prime centres for violence, reporting nearly 94 per cent of all fatalities and 89 per cent of attacks, including incidents of terrorism and security forces operations recorded during this time. Source: ANI 

At least 5 people injured at Rupganj in Narayanganj in the explosion caused by gas line leakage. The incident occured in Aukabo Bazar on Friday night. The injured are Hasoon Banu (55), her husband Ali Ahmed (65), son Omar Farooq (18), daughter Sahara Begum (24) and brother Sonuddin (45). Hashun Banu's nephew said in the hospital. Noore Alam said that they live on the ground floor of the house in Rupganj. Hasoon Banu is a housewife, her husband and brother have a dry shop in Gauchia Bazar.  Apart from this, daughter Sahara is disabled and son Omar Farooq works in local Anupam Garments.

At least four people were killed and 80 were left injured after an express train derailed in India's northeastern state of Bihar, according to authorities on Thursday. "Four casualties have been confirmed and a rescue operation is underway. Twenty-one coaches have derailed," Tarun Prakash, general manager of the East Central Railway, told the Times of India. The train departed from the Anand Vihar Terminal railway station in Delhi and was bound for the Kamakhya Junction in Assam. Cause unknown The cause behind the derailment of the train was not immediately known. Some of the injured people were sent to hospitals in Bihar's capital city, Patna, for treatment.  Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw expressed his condolences on X, formerly Twitter, and pledged to find the cause of the derailment. He also said an evacuation and rescue operation was "complete" and that passengers were shifted to a different train for their onward journey. India has one of the world's largest railway networks and has seen several accidents over the years. In June, India witnessed its worst train crash in two decades when a triple-train collision in Odisha resulted in the death of at least 288 people.

Police said on Saturday that more than 50 people suffered coughing, vomiting and shortness of breath due to irritant gas at a local festival tent in a German town. Dozens were treated on the site in the Hessisch Oldendorf town in the northwestern state of Lower Saxony while three were hospitalized.  Several people apparently threw so-called pepper balls on the ground, slowly releasing the gas into the air as they burst in a festival tent. Police said they arrested two 20-year-old suspects as part of their investigation into the incident.  The event, which started on Friday into the early hours of Saturday, was immediately evacuated by the police. According to the German news agency DPA, 900 people had to leave the tent where the incident occurred.