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Four people are dead and a fifth person is missing after a home exploded Saturday in Plum, Pennsylvania.

A gardener was seriously hurt when he picked up what was reportedly an unexploded firework on July 8 in Torrance, California.

French rescue workers searched Thursday for a person feared missing after a powerful blast brought down a building on Paris’ Left Bank.

An explosion hit a building in Paris, leaving dozens injured and igniting a fire that sent smoke soaring over city and prompted evacuations.

A goods vehicle exploded in Milan, Italy on Thursday morning, the blast causing a “domino” effect of other vehicles bursting into flame.

Anti-Macron activists were arrested in Marseille after an explosion was set off outside a police station, injuring one officer.

Two bodies found overnight in rubble following explosion that collapsed building in French city of Marseille, authorities said Monday.

A survivor of the explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, might have died had she not fallen into a vat of the liquid candy.

Several people are dead or unaccounted for in the aftermath of an explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory.

More than a dozen people reportedly have been injured following an explosion on Monday afternoon at a metal manufacturing plant in Bedford, Ohio, a suburb just 14 miles from downtown Cleveland.

Arizona authorities closed a portion of a freeway and issued a shelter-in-place order in the surrounding areas after a commercial truck tanker rolled over on the freeway and spilled nitric acid on Tuesday. 

At a press conference Monday, Ohio officials announced they would perform a “controlled release” of five derailed train cars holding vinyl chloride Monday at 3:30 p.m. as they pose a threat of a “catastrophic explosion” that could send shrapnel as far as a mile.

An explosion hit a pipeline connecting Latvia and Lithuania on Friday afternoon, sparking an evacuation of the nearby village.

A gas tanker exploded in Johannesburg, South Africa on Christmas Eve, blowing the roof off a nearby hospital and causing injuries hundreds of yards away. On Tuesday, the death toll from the blast was raised to 18, half of them staff and patients at the badly damaged Tambo Memorial Hospital.

A large fire has broken out following an explosion at what appears to be a soybean crushing plant in Iowa, according to property records. 

An elderly Marine veteran put himself in extreme danger Tuesday to save others when a row house exploded in the Pigtown area of Baltimore, Maryland.

Police in Auburn, Washington, are searching for a suspect who they believe blew up a car at a funeral and then fired gunshots at witnesses.

A doorbell camera at an Evansville, Indiana, house recorded an explosion that shook the surrounding area on Wednesday, killing three individuals.

Investigators are refusing to rule out the possibility that the bombing of a tax office in Athens this week that caused substantial damage could be linked to domestic terrorism, with far-left extremists taking credit for the blast.

A district attorney in Georgia called the Guidestones explosions “an act of domestic terrorism” and vowed to prosecute anyone suspected of being involved.

One man is dead after a jet truck exploded during a stunt that went wrong at an air show in Western Michigan on Saturday. 

At least 11 people died and 251 more were injured on Monday after a large cylinder containing “toxic gas” with a “very high chlorine content” exploded at a port in southern Jordan’s Aqaba city, Jordan’s state-run Al Mamlaka TV reported.

An explosion at an illegal oil refinery in southern Nigeria last week killed 110 people, Nigeria’s Vanguard newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) — the formal name for Boko Haram — on Saturday claimed responsibility for two separate attacks in recent days, the Guardian reported: a bombing in the northeastern Nigerian state of Tabara and a fatal police station

New explosions rocked a coal mine in southern Poland Thursday, injuring 10 rescuers who were preparing to search for seven missing people.

A manhole explosion in Times Square caused panic Sunday evening, sending hoards of people running in fear through the Manhattan streets.

A fiery explosion lit up the skyline over the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on Friday morning, clearly visible from the F1 racing track where the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix began on Sunday.

A laboratory at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics exploded on Sunday, killing two and injuring nine. The explosion, Chinese state media noted, was the second of its kind at a research institute this year.

Juan Guillermo Zuluaga, the governor of central Colombia’s Meta region, told reporters on Tuesday he survived two attempts on his life — the first by a sniper and the second via explosive device — within a 24-hour period from Sunday to Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

A Pakistani journalist was killed on Sunday in Balochistan province after a bomb exploded on or near his moving vehicle as he traveled to the nearby city of Karachi, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported Monday.

A home exploded in Rahway, New Jersey, on Thursday at approximately 5:44 a.m. on River Road, according to ABC 7.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby confirmed Thursday an explosion at the Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan resulted in several U.S. and civilian casualties.

The people of Lebanon noted with dismay on Tuesday that the first anniversary of the huge and deadly Port of Beirut explosion has arrived without any real progress in the much-touted probe to determine who was responsible.

Rescue teams in Germany continued searching for missing workers at an industrial park where an explosion killed at least two people.

An underground explosion on a Queens sidewalk sent flames into the air and injured a man standing nearby, according to video footage from NBC New York.

Community members in Whiteville, North Carolina, are showing support for a woman named Tabitha Ezzell and her son Ryder, who was burned in an accidental explosion.