The police station at the scene withstood the explosion, with a single, bullet-proof window blown in.
There was no explosion or fire at the scene, the fire service said.
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Bayou Perot was the scene of an explosion and fire on a specialized oil rig in December 2010 in which three men were injured.
In addition, two Palestinian men, ages 19 and 21, from the Bethlehem area were found dead at the scene of an explosion near the site where the Maccabiah Games are expected to start on Monday, said Israeli police.
Some firefighters at the scene of a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas were concerned Wednesday night about anhydrous ammonia.
Video of the scene just moments before the explosion showed Bhutto stepping into a heavily guarded vehicle to leave the rally.
In May 2003, for example, Afghan forces captured Prisoner 1051, an Afghan named Sharbat, near the scene of a roadside bomb explosion, the documents show.
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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a news release that it was deploying a "large investigation team" to the scene of the fire and explosion.
When you are from Rome, a city that has an incredible beer scene fuelled largely by the explosion in Italian craft brewing in the last five years (a tenfold increase in breweries in that time), why would you locate your brewery in a remote village in the foothills of the central Apennines?
The BBC's Will Grant, at the scene, says this is the biggest explosion to hit Mexico City for 30 years.
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The cause of the explosion wasn't immediately clear to those at the scene, he said.
Modern pianism smacks more of athletics than art, the result, some claim, of the explosion of piano competitions as an important part of the contemporary scene.
The FBI has launched a criminal investigation into two people who claim they have government materials and crime scene evidence showing that a missile was responsible for the explosion, a top law enforcement source told CNN.
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Mr. Swanton described a scene of "extreme devastation" near the site of the explosion and added that he expected there would be a rising list of fatalities by morning.
Alford said the firefighters headed toward the scene and then between five and 10 minutes later, he heard a massive explosion.
The North Sea was the scene of the world's worst offshore rig disaster, the Piper Alpha explosion, which killed 167 people in 1988.
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