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The explosions have disrupted the flow of cars, oil, iron ore and other items through the world’s 10th largest port.

State news agency Xinhua identified the owner of the warehouse as Tianjin Dongjiang Port Ruihai worldwide Logistics.

An environmental expert says evacuation of the area around Wednesdays mammoth warehouse blast in the Chinese port city of Tianjin is the “main priority, ” and warned of the explosions long term consequences.

At least 56 are known dead, among them 21 firefighters, but many are still missing, including dozens of employees of the company that owed the warehouse, according to Xinhua. Authorities said the toll could have been much higher if the disaster hit a more populated area. The...

Global news agency Reuters also released the video on its website followed by other online newspapers and agencies.

Tianjin authorities said 701 people were injured including 71 in serious condition.

This story was originally published on July 29, 2015 at 4:20 p.m. Two massive explosions have rocked the Chinese port city of Tianjin.

Rohatgi stated there needed to be “some finality” within the case.

A massive explosion late Wednesday shook the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, startling nearby residents with tremors and noise, but it was not known immediately if there were any casualties, according to state media.

Tiger Memon a prime accused in Mumbai serial blasts of 1993 has rang his family shortly before hanging Yakub Memon, an accused in the case and brother of Tiger Memon.

A case has been registered by the Delhi police who started investigating the letter.

About 300 prominent citizens, including at least eight retired judges of the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court, had urged India’s president to commute Memon’s sentence to life in prison, reflecting what appears to be growing uneasiness in India with the death penalty.

There was tight security around the Nagpur prison on Thursday morning, and in parts of the state capital, Mumbai.

Hurriyat said that the hanging of the Yakub Mamon has reopened the wounds of the Kashmiri nation and today the memories of the Shaheed Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Gooru are badly striking our hearts and minds who were hanged for no crime and whose dead bodies too...

It looks like ghost of Afzal Guru who was hanged in 2013, returns to haunt Modi-led government which is in the power both at the Centre and in the Jammu and Kashmir.