51.   Forty-three people were injured in the first blast, including a man who lost a leg.

52.   French authorities have not said when they would stage the first underground blasts, plans that have sparked worldwide protests.

53.   He said an unidentified supervisor spotted the fire and sounded an alarm, alerting fellow workers who fled shortly before the first blast.

54.   Hours after the first blast, after authorities said the situation was under control, two more powerful explosions shook the plant.

55.   In the first blast in a manufacturing area in northwest Bombay, police said a small bomb being carried by a man exploded when he tripped and fell.

56.   Israel army radio said that several Palestinians were wounded in the first blast.

57.   It mentioned no fatalities from the first blast.

58.   Izvestia quoted Igor Kurdin, who leads a group of retired submariners, saying that Spassky had told him that the first blast indeed came from a misfiring torpedo.

59.   It said the second explosion targeted a car of an SLA intelligence official who came to the scene of the first blast to investigate.

60.   Maj. Angela Herbert, spokeswoman for the International Security Assistance Force, said the first blast before dawn was a controlled explosion.