31.   When they heard the huge blast, many people thought it was a terror attack.

32.   Witnesses said there was at first one small explosion, followed by smoke, then a second huge blast.

33.   Four people were injured when a huge blast ripped through a research laboratory of the BASF chemical and pharmaceutical plant here, a company statement said Monday.

34.   Huge blasts ignited storage tanks at Kolonnawa, leaving firemen helpless to stem the blaze.

35.   A huge blast rocked the Algerian capital Thursday and ambulances and police cars were rushing to the scene on hills overlooking Algiers, an AFP correspondent reported.

36.   A huge blast rocked Montreal late Tuesday, triggering thousands of distress calls, in what police believe could have been a meteorite impact.

37.   It was reduced to rubble by two huge blasts in which army radio said two tonnes of explosives were used.

38.   Palestinian police on Monday put on show some of the weapons and explosives they said were discovered in a HAMAS bomb-factory destroyed in a huge blast Sunday.

39.   Police combed the area around Montreal Wednesday looking for traces of a meteorite believed responsible for a huge blast that rocked the area.

40.   Six Palestinians died in a huge blast in Gaza City on Sunday caused by HAMAS militants who were handling explosives, security officials said.