The blast occurred at around 0430 GMT in a government-owned explosives depot near Katpadi town, 200 kilometers ( 125 miles ) southwest of the state capital, Madras.
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The Soviet secret service KGB set up secret weapons and explosives depots in the 1960s and'70s for its agents operating in Austria, the Austrian weekly news magazine Profil reported Friday.
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In a separate investigation of an arms network said to supply Islamic militants in Algeria, police uncovered explosives depots containing stocks of dynamite, detonators and other material, the Interior Ministry said.
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"If we find an explosives depot or a bomb factory, of course we will raid it, " he added, implying that the police will not initiate any searches for such hideouts.
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Within weeks of the invasion, international weapons inspectors told Washington that the explosives depot was in danger and that terrorists could help themselves " to the greatest explosives bonanza in history ."
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The blast occurred at around 0430 GMT in the explosives depot in Katpadi, 200 kilometers ( 125 miles ) southwest of Madras, the capital of southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, officials said.
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In 1947 he and his men put out a fire in an explosives depot in Bari, personally neutralizing chemical leaking from a bomb and sustaining mustard gas burns which left him in hospital.
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Meanwhile, the secretary-general of the Palestinian Authority said in a statement put out by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA that the self-rule government found a large explosives depot in Gaza City this week.
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Such explosives depots are generally built far from populated areas for safety reasons, which makes it easy for thieves to use heavy equipment to break in and transport material with almost no chance of being heard.
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A French soldier who had locked himself in an explosives depot and threatened to blow it up turned himself in Monday, the Interior Ministry said, peacefully ending a three-day drama that prompted the evacuation of hundreds of villagers.
