Report: 6 killed in blasts at ammunition and explosives factory in Serbia

September 23rd, 2009 Serbia tries Kosovo ex-rebels for war crimesBELGRADE, Serbia — Seventeen former Kosovo rebels went on trial Wednesday before the Serbian war crimes court, charged with murder, rape and torture of Serb civilians in 1999. Nine of the men were arrested in December in a predominantly Albanian-populated region of Serbia bordering Kosovo.

September 4th, 2009 Blasts kill 7 at Serbia munitions factoryBELGRADE, Serbia — A series of explosions at an underground ammunition factory in central Serbia killed at least seven people and injured 15, police said Friday. They said the explosions occurred around 10 p.m.

September 3rd, 2009 Blasts kill 6 at Serbia munitions factoryBELGRADE, Serbia — A series of explosions late Thursday at an ammunition factory in central Serbia killed at least six people and injured 10, police said. They said the explosions occurred around 10 p.m.

September 1st, 2009 BELGRADE - Days after Serbia signed a $100 million arms contract with Iraq, Baghdad is asking Belgrade to return 19 fighter planes that were sent to Serbia in 1989 for servicing, Belgrade media reported Tuesday. The Iraqi Defence Ministry sent a note Monday to Serbian authorities demanding the return of MiG-21 and MiG-23 planes as soon as possible, and a delegation had gone to Serbia over the weekend to start the process, the daily Vecernje Novosti reported.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A corruption case involving an Israeli firm and a former head of Nalanda ordnance factory has delayed the plans to set up the munitions manufacturing unit in Bihar, parliament was told Monday. India's 40th ordnance factory at Rajgir in Bihar was to be set up jointly with Israel Military Industries (IMI), which is under the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) scanner for the bribery case.

July 15th, 2009 PARIS - At least two people were killed and five injured Wednesday in an explosion at a chemicals factory in northeastern France belonging to the Total oil company, i-tele television reported. An unknown number of people were reported missing and were feared buried under the debris.

July 6th, 2009 BHOPAL - Ten people were killed in blasts that ripped through two factories manufacturing explosives in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli district, police said Monday. The incident occurred around 7.30 p.m.

July 5th, 2009 SINGRAULI - At least five people were feared dead and over 100 injured late Sunday when multiple blasts triggered a massive fire in two explosive factories in an industrial area of this Madhya Pradesh district, police and eyewitnesses said. The death toll may mount as the two factories in the Baliyari Industrial Area of Singrauli were reduced to rubble, according to police.

July 5th, 2009 SINGRAULI - At least five people were feared dead and around 100 injured late Sunday when multiple blasts triggered massive fire in two explosive factories in an industrial area of this Madhya Pradesh district, police and eyewitnesses said. The death toll may mount as the two factories in the Bairhan Industrial Area of Singrauli were reduced to rubble, according to police.

June 22nd, 2009 Toddler in critical condition after China blastBEIJING — Doctors in eastern China were trying Monday to save the life of a 2-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a weekend factory explosion that killed 16 people, state media reported. The blast early Sunday destroyed three buildings of a factory producing quartz sand in Anhui province and left 43 injured, a statement on the State Administration of Work Safety's Web site said.

June 21st, 2009 16 people killed in eastern China factory blastBEIJING — An explosion at a factory in eastern China killed 16 people and injured dozens early Sunday, authorities said. The blast happened at 3 a.m.

June 21st, 2009 AGRA - Six employees of a shoe factory here were killed and at least 12 others injured early Sunday when the stationary bus they were in was hit by a speeding car transport carrier, police said. The employees were returning home from the factory after their night shift when the accident occurred, police added.

June 4th, 2009 Mammoth skeleton unearthed in SerbiaBELGRADE, Serbia — A well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth that is believed to be about 1 million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia, archaeologists said Thursday. The discovery was made during excavation two days ago at an open-pit coal mine near Kostolac power plant, said Miomir Korac, from Serbia's Archaeology Institute.

April 29th, 2009 Ammo explodes at Tanzania dump site, 3 killedARUSHA, Tanzania — Huge explosions rocked an ammunition dump at an army camp in Tanzania's commercial capital Wednesday, killing three people and injuring more than 150, officials said. Dr Sylvia Mamkwe, a doctor at Temeke Municipal, said it had received the three fatalities, and state-run Tanzania Broadcasting Corp., citing police on the site, gave the injury total.

April 29th, 2009 Ammo explodes at Tanzania dump site; deaths fearedARUSHA, Tanzania — Huge blasts rocked an ammunition dump at an army camp in Tanzania's commercial capital on Wednesday, officials said. Several people were feared dead, according to police spokesman Mohamed Mhina.