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An accidental explosion at a storage facility in western Turkey killed 25 soldiers and wounded four others, Turkish officials told the Anadolu news agency.
The blast occurred Wednesday evening in the province of Afyonkarahisar at the facility that stored hand grenades, military officials said, according ot Anadolu.
"I am satisfied that it is completely an accident. It has nothing to do with terrorism or sabotage from outside," Turkish Forestry Minister Veysel Eroglu told the news agency.
Reuters,Mon Mar 5, 2012
Blast at Brazzaville arms depot kills hundreds
Up to 200 people were killed on Sunday when an arms dump exploded in Brazzaville, ripping apart a nearby neighbourhood in the Congo Republic's capital. Hundreds of others were injured by the blasts which rocked the riverside capital around 8 a.m. (0700 GMT).
A government spokesman said that a short circuit was to blame for the fire that sparked the explosions and promised to move military barracks out of town as a result.
New York Times, 1feb2012
The New York Times asks for readers’ help identifying a weapon found on the battlefields of Libya last year. They have spent considerable time identifying and sometimes tracing the tools of war in several recent conflicts back to their sources. But this time, they are stumped. The items in question are what ordnance professionals call submunitions, but are more widely known among lay readers as cluster bombs.
The photograph shows one found at the ruins of an arms depot a few miles outside of Mizdah, in the desert south of Tripoli.
photo by C. J. Chivers
