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  • 79 Injured in Explosion at Russian TNT Plant (Boom!)

    06/01/2019 1:52:47 PM PDT · by Libloather · 20 replies
    Time ^ | 6/01/19
    MOSCOW — Russia’s health ministry says 79 people have been injured in an explosion in a plant manufacturing TNT. The blast took place Saturday in Dzerzhinsk, 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow. An investigation is underway but the cause of the blast has not been determined. The ministry said 38 employees at the plant and 41 local residents sought treatment after the blast. It said 15 were hospitalized, one in serious condition. The blast broke windows in about 180 residential buildings near the plant, the state news agency Tass reported, citing city authorities.
  • Cache with weapons, explosives found at church construction site near N. Novgorod

    10/18/2009 11:55:29 PM PDT · by Cindy · 14 replies · 1,359+ views
    INTERFAX ^ | 16 October 2009, 11:22 | n/a
    Moscow, October 17, Interfax ""A bag containing a Vepr hunter carbine, a Baikal handgun and 100-gram TNT mine with an electric detonator was found under reinforced concrete slabs at the church construction site," a source at law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Friday."