Tag: explosion

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese President Michel Aoun knew about the huge stockpile of explosive material stored at Beirut’s port nearly three weeks before it blew up, he said Friday, adding he had ordered action be…

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation of the massive blast that tore through Beirut sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s port, and the visiting French president…

BEIRUT (AP) — Residents of Beirut —stunned, sleepless and stoic — emerged Wednesday from the aftermath of a catastrophic explosion searching for missing relatives, bandaging their wounds and retrieving what’s left of their homes. The…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than a dozen people were injured Friday when a nitrogen line ruptured at the Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas, causing part of the building to collapse, authorities said. …

MORAN ? Max Houk, injured when his house exploded and collapsed around him Saturday, remains hospitalized in a Kansas City hospital. Houk, 62, suffered injuries to his back and legs in the explosion. He?s a…

MORAN — A resident was injured this afternoon when an explosion destroyed his house. Max Houk, 62, was at home when the explosion blew away the front walls to his home about six miles north and…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An explosion ripped through a mosque inside an Afghan army base in the country’s volatile eastern Khost province as today’s prayers were drawing to a close, killing 27 soldiers and wounding…