HOUSTON (Reuters) – An oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday, setting off a blaze and a small oil spill, but the accident does not appear to be as serious as BP’s deadly rig explosion and oil spill in April.
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Oil spill seen in Gulf platform explosion
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A parliamentary panel on Wednesday recommended changes to a bill aimed at opening up India’s $150 billion nuclear power market, which included trebling the accident compensation burden and extending the liability cover to private suppliers.
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Parliamentary panel suggests tougher nuclear liability bill
KINSHASA: A boat capsized on a river in western Democratic Republic of Congo killing at least 140 people, the provincial governor’’s office said Thursday.
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140 dead, as boat overturns in Congo
LOS ANGELES: A bus accident on a California highway early Thursday killed six people and left nine others with serious injuries, a highway patrol spokesman said. The accident involved a Greyhound bus, which toppled off a highway after the bus driver swerved to avoid hitting one car, crashed through a highway divider and then hit another vehicle.
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Six killed in bus crash on California highway
NAWABSHAH: At least four people were killed and seven others injured in a collision between a passenger van and a pickup, Geo News reported Thursday. According to police sources, the accident-mauled passenger pickup was on way to Qazi Ahmed’s livestock market, when a mini truck ran into it from behind after going out of control of its driver on bursting of its tyre.
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Four killed in road accident in Nawabshah
BEIJING: At least 28 miners were killed in a coalmine accident in northwest China, official news agency reported Sunday, citing local government sources. The accident occurred in Hancheng city, Shaanxi province, on Saturday evening killing all 28 workers in the pit at the time
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KARACHI: A kerosene oil tanker has overturned owing to over-speeding near Bilawal Chowrangi in Clifton locality late on Thursday night, resulting in spilling 40,000-liter oil on road, Geo news reported.
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Oil tanker overturns near Bilawal Chowrangi
BEIJING: An explosion at a mine in central China on Thursday killed at least six people and left 34 others injured, many of them residents living near the pit, local authorities said. The blast took place in Henan province’’s Pingdingshan city, according to a report on the city’’s official website. The mine was not operational at the time of the accident.
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China mine explosion kills at least six
KINSHASA: More than 200 people were killed and 100 injured when a fuel tanker overturned and exploded in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo late on Friday, a local governor said on Saturday. “Some people were killed trying to steal the fuel, but most of the deaths were of people who were indoors watching the (World Cup) match,” said Marcellin Cisamvo, governor of south Kivu province, where the accident took place. He said some U.N.
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Fuel tanker explosion kills 200 in Congo: governor
KINSHASA: At least 100 people died when a tanker truck filled with oil exploded and set fire to a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials said Saturday.
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