At least three explosions rocked a military ammunition depot located to the east of Russia's Lake Baikal, a local official told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
"According to preliminary reports, three blasts hit an ammo depot near the village of Bolshaya Tura," the source said.
"Local residents are being evacuated, although no casualties have been reported so far," the official said.
Some four hundred people were evacuated from the danger zone, according to a local law enforcement source.
The Defense Ministry confirmed there were no casualties and said the personnel of a military unit stationed in the area have been timely evacuated.
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Photo reportedly shows flooding in Pensacola, Fla., amid severe storms.
Photo reportedly shows flooding in Pensacola, Fla., amid severe storms.
Escambia County spokesman Bill Pearson told The Pensacola News Journal that at least one person died and several others were stranded by floodwaters in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. The circumstances surrounding the death were not immediately known.
Pearson said fire rescue crews aren't able to respond to some calls early Wednesday because of road flooding around Pensacola. He said some people have climbed into their attics because of rising waters.
"We are asking people to stay off the roads," Pearson told the newspaper.
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According to researchers at the University of Oregon, the results came after tests analyzed the cesium levels in 26 tuna caught prior to the 2011 nuclear calamity - as far back as 2008 - and those caught after the accident.
Although the levels of radioactive isotopes in some of the tuna tripled after the disaster, the researchers found they are still "a thousand times lower" than the safety standards outlined by the US Department of Agriculture.
"A year of eating albacore with these cesium traces is about the same dose of radiation as you get from spending 23 seconds in a stuffy basement from radon gas," the study's lead author, Delvan Neville said to Oregon's Statesman Journal.
Still, Neville added that the discovery of any amount of radiation is significant.
An unidentified man leapt from the main bridge over the Tárcoles River, near Costa Rica's central Pacific coast, on Tuesday evening at approximately 5:20 p.m. in what is believed to be a suicide, Jim Batres, assistant director for the Costa Rican Red Cross, told The Tico Times.
After falling into the water, the man reportedly was eaten by the river's famously abundant crocodiles.
Citing the testimonies of unidentified witnesses at the scene, Batres said the man had been causing a disturbance on the bridge earlier in the evening and was removed by police. He then went to a bar before returning to the bridge and leaping into the river.
Batres said the man's identity could not immediately be confirmed, and members of a Red Cross search team were unable to recover the body as of 7:50 p.m. Tuesday night.
A conflicting report in the daily La Nación said the victim did not jump from the bridge, but tried to swim in the river from the shore when he was attacked by a crocodile and disappeared.
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A crocodile slithers into the water from the muddy bank of a Costa Rican river. For illustrative purposes only.
A crocodile slithers into the water from the muddy bank of a Costa Rican river. For illustrative purposes only.
Citing the testimonies of unidentified witnesses at the scene, Batres said the man had been causing a disturbance on the bridge earlier in the evening and was removed by police. He then went to a bar before returning to the bridge and leaping into the river.
Batres said the man's identity could not immediately be confirmed, and members of a Red Cross search team were unable to recover the body as of 7:50 p.m. Tuesday night.
A conflicting report in the daily La Nación said the victim did not jump from the bridge, but tried to swim in the river from the shore when he was attacked by a crocodile and disappeared.
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A massive storm system moves across the United States.
A massive storm system moves across the United States.
Roughly 70 million people are being warned of a slight to moderate risk of severe weather in the eastern half of the United States, according to the National Weather Service. That was a slight downgrade from an estimated 75 million people earlier in the day.
Mississippi and Alabama -- where tornadoes Monday caused widespread destruction and several deaths -- were again in the bull's-eye for the worst of Tuesday's forecast.
Tens of thousands were without power in those two states, where suspected tornadoes chewed through homes and businesses late Monday. At least 13 people were killed in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee on Monday. Those deaths are in addition to 18 others reported in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Iowa from storms Sunday.
People walking their dogs during mist and frost in Richmond Park
Forecasters say that parts of Britain will experience heavy overnight frosts, with the North facing a windchill factor of -5C and the potential for snow on hilltops by the end of the week.
The impending cold snap follows one of the mildest winters in recent years, although the wettest January for 250 years led to widespread flooding - particularly in the South-West.
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The storm tore through scores of villages overnight on Sunday, uprooting trees and electricity poles and derailing a train in an incident that injured dozens of passengers.
Nine people were killed in the worst-hit district of Netrokona, six died in neighbouring Sunamganj, and one person died after being struck by lightning in nearby Naogaon, police in all three districts said.
Among the nine killed in Netrokona was a pregnant woman and her three children, district police official Rashel Miah said.
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Now just a few short years later, polar bears in Alaska are facing a major problem: too much ice. CNSNews has the details:
Five meters of ice - about 16 feet thick - is threatening the survival of polar bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea region along Alaska's Arctic coast, according to Dr. Susan J. Crockford, an evolutionary biologist in British Columbia who has studied polar bears for most of her 35-year career.
That's because the thick ice ridges could prevent ringed seals, the bears' major prey, from creating breathing holes they need to survive in the frigid waters, Crockford told CNSNews.com.
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A system that brought deadly weather to the central and southern U.S. over the weekend dumped heavy snow in western South Dakota late Sunday and early Monday.
A system that brought deadly weather to the central and southern U.S. over the weekend dumped heavy snow in western South Dakota late Sunday and early Monday.
"It's all kind of tied together," National Weather Service meteorologist Michael Mathews told The Associated Press. "This is the back side of that system."
The weather service posted a winter storm warning for the northern Black Hills early Monday, and nine inches of snow fell three miles southeast of Deadwood. Elementary, middle and high school classes were canceled in the Lead-Deadwood School district.
Interstate 90 and other major roads in the area remained open Monday but drivers were advised to reduce speed and watch for scattered slippery spots and sloppy wet slush.
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A damaged vehicle is seen amid debris after a tornado hit the town of Mayflower, Arkansas around 7:30 pm CST, late April 27, 2014
A damaged vehicle is seen amid debris after a tornado hit the town of Mayflower, Arkansas around 7:30 pm CST, late April 27, 2014
At least 31 tornadoes were reported by the National Weather Agency to have hit Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Arkansas was the worst affected - with a three-quarter of a mile-wide tornado instantaneously leveling buildings caught in its way. At least 14 people have died in the state, local officials said on Monday. Previously, it was reported that as many as 18 had died.
RT to show your support & prayer for all of those devastated by yesterday's#tornado #PrayForArkansas @liamkfisher pic.twitter.com/2tRjfJszdM"It's been a truly awful night for many families, neighborhoods and communities, but Arkansans always step up to help each other recover," Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe tweeted, ahead of his visit to the affected areas on Monday morning.
- allys_sons (@allys_sons) April 28, 2014
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