Friday, September 04, 2009 BELGRADE: Explosions ripped through a munitions factory in northern Serbia on Thursday killing seven people and injuring 14 others, officials said."Seven employees, six women and one man, were killed in the explosions" that rocked the Prvi Partizan plant in Uzice, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on a private television after visiting the scene.Fourteen people suffered light injuries and had been taken to hospital, he added. The cause of the explosions has yet to be determined, said Dacic.The bodies were pulled from the debris, said police official Predrag Maric, adding that firefighters had put out the resulting blaze."A more serious catastrophe was avoided as some 100 people were located in the factory at the moment of the explosions," he said.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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