51.   Two cars caught fire, but firemen extinguished the flames before the gas tanks exploded.

52.   Two chemical storage tanks exploded in Sarawak, just around Christmas, sending a dark cloud of smoke into the air.

53.   A further two people died overnight when their car plunged off the road on a viaduct over Lake Cavazzo in Italy and the petrol tank exploded.

54.   A propane gas tank exploded in a heating business in Kokomo, Indiana Monday but there were no reports of injuries, police said.

55.   A device attached to the car went off and the petrol tank exploded, the official told AFP, requesting anonymity.

56.   A Taliban Islamic militia tank suddenly exploded at dawn in Kabul Tuesday, causing several casualties and raising speculation that it was a target of sabotage, witnesses said.

57.   An underground gas tank exploded in Seoul on Wednesday, leaving at least three dead and dozens injured, police and television reports said.

58.   An official at the British embassy in Riyadh told AFP that a device attached to the car went off and the petrol tank exploded.

59.   But a police officer said by telephone that the blast was caused when the petrol tank of the scooter exploded.

60.   Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last week ordered that Dronka be rebuilt far from the fuel depot where storage tanks had exploded.