Footage broadcast by the TVGE channel showed buildings burned and flattened in a wide radius around the Nkoa Ntoma camp in the economic capital Bata, with a thick plume of black smoke rising into the sky.
A maritime intelligence firm identified the stricken vessel as the MV Helios Ray, a Bahamian-flagged ship. The incident recalled the summer of 2019 when the same site saw a series of suspected attacks that the US blamed on Iran, which Tehran denied.
At least two people have been killed and a number of civilians wounded in the attack for which no group has yet claimed responsibility.
Lebanon’s authorities publicly promised an investigation into the blast that killed more than 200 people and devastated half the city would take five days, but six months later, the public is still waiting for answers.
At least six civilians were killed and 25 others wounded in the attack for which no group has claimed immediate responsibility.
Indian police and bomb disposal experts took over the scene, sealing off district around the embassy in the capital.
Two men blew themselves up in a crowded Baghdad market and killed at least 32 people in Iraq's first big suicide bombing in three years.
Images from the scene showed the walls on the top four or five storeys of the residential building in the heart of the La Latina neighbourhood had been blown out
The blast in the southern US city left buildings and the road surface charred, as well as glass, tree branches and bricks strewn across the street in an area filled with businesses, restaurants and bars.
Afghanistan continues to be hit by violence despite meetings between the Afghan government and the Taliban since September to discuss an end to the 19-year war.
Large blast at water treatment site near Bristol city kills four workers, emergency services and police say.
Officials say one of the terrorists was killed while detonating explosives while the other was killed during a shootout with security forces in Hatay's Iskenderun district.
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