41.   Four crew members were injured when they jumped off the plane following the explosion, said Usat Borasutra, the deputy chief of the Civil Aviation Department.

42.   General Manager Prabhakar Rao, who was explaining the working of the missile to the visitors, was also in hospital undergoing treatment for shock following the explosion.

43.   He said firefighters extinguished a fire that followed the explosion.

44.   Hundreds of homes were evacuated following the explosion at the ATOFINA Chemicals Inc. plant.

45.   In a shootout that followed the explosion, the perpetrator was killed by police as well as a passerby.

46.   In the few fatal seconds following the explosion, human beings were vaporized where they stood or suffered agonizing flash burns that ripped skin from bone.

47.   India conducted two more underground nuclear tests Wednesday, following three explosions earlier this week that angered the world.

48.   Investigators were sorting through the rubble of the two-story building in the town of Gudermes following the explosion, an aide to Kremlin spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said.

49.   India said the last two blasts, which followed three explosions Monday, completed the series of planned tests.

50.   Israel radio said five Israeli soldiers were taken to a hospital in Haifa following the explosion.