12 factory workers killed in Philippines blast

September 30th, 2009 Official: 2 US soldiers killed in PhilippinesMANILA, Philippines — Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a landmine attack Tuesday by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in the southern Philippines, military officials said.

September 30th, 2009 Official: Mine kills US soldier in PhilippinesMANILA, Philippines — The Philippines military says one U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded in a landmine explosion in the country's insurgent-plagued south.

September 29th, 2009 MANILA - Two US servicemen and Filipino marine soldier in southern Philippines were killed Tuesday when their Hummer jeep hit a landmine, an official said. Two people were wounded in the blast near a marine detachment in Indanan town of Sulu province Tuesday morning, chief military spokesperson Lt.

July 21st, 2009 Philippines says 10 Filipinos died in Afghan crashMANILA, Philippines — Ten Filipino workers were among the civilians killed in a helicopter crash at NATO's largest air base in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday. All 16 people aboard the Russian-owned civilian Mi-8 helicopter died Sunday when it slammed into the tarmac at Kandahar Air Base shortly after takeoff.

July 13th, 2009 French official dismisses threat by former workersPARIS — A French official has dismissed a threat by laid-off workers to blow up their factory in western France, saying the gas canisters they placed in front of the automobile parts company are empty. Anne Frackowiak, top aide to the local governor in Chatellerault, 305 kilometers (190 miles) southwest of Paris, said Monday the former New Fabris factory workers will be meeting with France's industry minister to discuss their demand for euro 30,000 ($41,000) compensation each by the end of the month.

July 5th, 2009 MANILA - Four people were killed and several wounded when a homemade bomb exploded outside a Catholic cathedral in a southern Philippine city Sunday, police said. The blast occurred as churchgoers were coming out of the cathedral in Cotabato City, 960 km south of Manila, said police Chief Inspector Alexander Sarabia.

May 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least nine people, including six children, were killed in a blast Saturday in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to a media report. At least 16 children were among the injured in the blast near a school bus at the Kakshal residential area in Peshawar, which is the capital of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), the Express TV reported.

May 10th, 2009 KABUL - Seven civilians working with a road construction company were killed Sunday in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan, a government spokesman said. The workers were on way to a construction site near the border with Pakistan Sunday morning when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb in Haskamina district of eastern Nangarhar province, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the provincial governor said.

May 3rd, 2009 FARIDABAD - Ten workers were killed and at least five were still missing after a fire broke out at a factory in Faridabad near New Delhi, authorities said Sunday, adding that an inquiry was ordered. The factory, belonging to Lakhani footwear of the Lakhani-Vardhman group and located in sector-24 industrial area, was to shut for the day Friday evening when there was a sudden blast and high flames soon engulfed the packaging department.

April 6th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Four men were killed and 15 injured in a blast here Monday, police said, adding that the authorities suspected the hand of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rebels behind the blast in Assam's largest city.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - One person was killed and four others injured in a blast in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district Wednesday, police said. 'The blast occurred in a crowded municipal market of Alipurduar,' Inspector General (Law and Order) Raj Kanojia told IANS.

February 27th, 2009 TRISSUR - Five workers, including a woman, were killed and an equal number seriously injured when a fire triggered blasts at two cracker manufacturing units in Kerala Thursday evening, police said. The incident occurred near Pattambi in Palakkad district, which also houses Chief Minister V.S.

February 18th, 2009 PATNA - Five workers were found dead in the premises of an iron factory in the Bihar capital Thursday, police said pointing out that all the bodies bore injury marks. The bodies of the five workers of Magadh Iron factory were found in a room.

February 12th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - At least three people were killed and three others sustained critical injuries in an accident in a cement factory in Orissa Friday, police said. A huge iron plate fell on the workers accidentally when they were trying to erect it on a newly built tower in the new factory of the Orissa Cement Limited at Rajgangpur in Sundergarh district, 471 km from here, inspector in charge of the Rajgang police station S.K.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two labourers were burnt Tuesday when a blast took place in one of the drums kept in a chemical factory in central Delhi, officials said. Minor fire broke out in the godown of the chemical factory in Khari Baoli area around 2.30 p.m.