ISTANBUL, Turkey – Explosions rocked two small tourist hotels and a gas plant in Istanbul early today in apparent terrorist attacks, killing at least two people and injuring seven others, police said.
The explosion at a liquefied petroleum gas plant took place shortly after an anonymous bomb threat, police said. It was not clear if there were any casualties.
The two earlier explosions rocked inexpensive hotels, which often host tourists from former Soviet republics, around 2 a.m., police said.
Workers at the Pars hotel in the Sultanahmet area said they received an anonymous call warning of a bomb only 10 minutes before it exploded.
Japan: Fatal nuclear plant accident
Japan suffered its deadliest nuclear power plant accident Monday when a steam pipe burst and killed at least four workers and injured seven. No radiation was released when the boiling water and steam exploded from a cooling pipe at the plant in Mihama, a small city about 200 miles west of Tokyo.
Sudan agreed Monday to take part in peace talks to resolve the crisis in its western region of Darfur, where purportedly state-backed Arab militias are accused of killing thousands of African villagers. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, in his capacity as African Union chairman, offered to host the talks between the Sudanese government and rebel negotiators starting Aug. 23.
Forensic experts said Monday they found a mass grave in the waste dump of a coal mine in Miljevina, which they suspect may contain the bodies of about 350 Muslims who disappeared from a detention center in nearby Foca during the Bosnian war. Exhumations were expected to take two weeks.
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