Deadly Pipeline Blast in East Java Linked to Volcanic Eruptions
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A gas pipeline explosion that killed at least seven people in East Java was a consequence of the volcanic mud eruptions that began in the area several months ago, government officials and drilling experts said today.
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SURABAYA, Indonesia  - A man died late on Wednesday after suffering injuries from last week's gas pipeline explosion in the Indonesian area swamped by a devastating mudflow, pushing the incident's death toll to 12, a doctor said.
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At least 12 people die in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.
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A gas line exploded Monday, sending flames hundreds of feet in the air as some workers were laying a pipeline. Several nearby vehicles were burned but no one was hurt.
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New York officials said today that a deadly steam pipe explosion did not leave asbestos in the air but that the substance was found in some solid debris and dust. The blast Wednesday in midtown Manhattan sent plumes of steam and ash into the air. One person died.
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One person was killed and one person injured when a pipeline carrying natural gas to the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states recently hard hit by winter storms exploded in northeast Louisiana, at about 1 p.m. CST (1900 GMT), according to local media reports.
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Nigerian police said on Friday dozens of  people had been killed in a petroleum pipeline explosion in the  commercial capital Lagos early on Thursday morning.
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LAGOS, Nigeria  - An oil pipeline exploded near Nigeria's largest city as thieves tried to siphon oil from it, with up to 50 people perishing in the flames, police said Friday.
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Mount Soputan volcano on the northern tip of Indonesia's Sulawesi island has erupted, throwing columns of ash 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) into the air, an official said on Friday.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia  - A strong earthquake rocked parts of eastern Indonesia early Friday, killing 16 people, injuring more than 100 and damaging hundreds of buildings, seismologists and officials said.
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Witnesses have reported seeing an object with a tail of fire hurtling toward earth near Indonesia&#39;s capital, before a loud explosion was heard in several districts of Jakarta.
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Tanggerang - A large explosion was heard over Jakarta on Sunday after a suspected meteor was seen streaking across the sky over the Indonesian capital.
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A senior oil industry official says saboteurs have blown up an oil export pipeline in southern Iraq. The explosion occurred about 30 miles southwest of Basra at a pipeline that connects oilfields with export storage tanks.
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VERACRUZ, Mexico - A shadowy leftist guerrilla group claimed responsibility for a string of explosions that ripped apart at least six Mexican oil and gas pipelines yesterday, rattling financial markets and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost production.
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An explosion at a South African gas plant has killed five workers and injured at least 100 others. A spokesman for the Sasol energy company says the blast occurred Wednesday at its ethylene plant in the northeastern town of Secunda, Mpumalanga.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia - A loud noise several witnesses said sounded like an explosion was heard in parts of the Indonesian capital early Sunday.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A powerful blast has hit Jakarta&#39;s central business district near the Australian Embassy, killing at least three people and wounding many more, news agencies say.