One poor girl was reportedly killed when a firecracker underneath a manhole cover made it fly up and strike her head (some explosive power, that).

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Long jump rivals Chris Tomlinson, the 2008 World indoor silver medalist, and 2006 European silver medalist Greg Rutherford, who will represent Newcastle, will also go head-to-head in a potentially explosive battle.

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In April last year, Capt Lisa Jade Head, from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps died in a UK hospital from injuries suffered in an explosion while clearing roadside bombs in the Nahr-e Saraj area.

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Or perhaps explosive pixie dust suddenly finds them whenever they head to the airport.

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But, even before Mr Zen-Ruffinen came out with his explosive dossier, Mr Blatter was already facing a challenge for the presidency from Issa Hayatou, the head of the African football confederation.

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Ali Mamlouk, the newly appointed head of the national security bureau, and a colonel known only as Adnan provided improvised explosive devices to Lebanese politician Michel Samaha, who faces the same charges.

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