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India fireworks factory catches fire
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Flames billowing out of the factory could be seen 1.5 kilometers (one mile) away before firefighters with about a dozen fire engines extinguished the fire more than five hours after it began, witnesses and news reports said. Photographs taken afterward showed the factory had burned to rubble and fireworks littered the ground.
NEW DELHI — A massive blaze raged for hours at a fireworks factory in southern India, killing at least 40 workers and injuring 60 others Wednesday, police said. Some reports put the death toll at more than 50.
The fire spread to 40 of the 60 rooms at the Om Siva Shakti fireworks factory, one of the biggest in
Sivakasi town in Tamil Nadu state, police officer P. Karupaiah said.
The Press Trust of India news agency said about 300 people were working in the factory and 52 died. The CNN-IBN television news channel said rescue workers had completed a search of the devastated building for trapped workers.
Large amounts of firecrackers and raw materials were stored in the factory with major Hindu festivals weeks away.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known, Karupaiah said.
The region has many factories making fireworks, which are used in religious festivals and weddings across India. They also are exported to other Asian countries.
Fireworks lie in the foreground as policemen arrive at the scene after a massive blaze swept through the Om Siva Shakti fireworks factory in Skavaksi, India.
NORTH AMERICA
Costa Rica earthquake causes major damage
CANGREJAL, Costa Rica — A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic and at least one death from a heart attack.
Costa Rica President Laura Chinchilla announced there were no reports of major damage and called for calm.
At the epicenter, the beach town of Cangrejal, Jairo Zuniga, 27, said everything in his house fell when the quake hit at 8:42 a.m. (10:42 a.m. eDT: 1442 GMT)
"It was incredibly strong. I've felt earthquakes, but this one was 'wow,' he said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered about 38 miles (60 kilometers) from the town of Liberia and 87 miles (140 kilometers) west of the capital, San Jose, where frightened people ran into the streets.
The magnitude initially was estimated at 7.9, but was quickly downgraded. Local residents said it shook for about 30 seconds and was felt as far away as neighboring Panama and Nicaragua, where school was canceled in some areas.
Panama also briefly called for people to evacuate beach areas.
Greece cracking down on illegals
EUROPE
rica. The influx has fueled racist rhetoric and violence.
A police statement says nearly 17,000 people were temporarily detained in the greater Athens area since the drive started on Aug. 4, with 2,144 of those arrested.
ATHENS, Greece — Greek police say they have made more than 3,000 arrests in a monthold campaign to hold and deport illegal immigrants.
Debt-crippled Greece is the main gateway to the European Union for illegal immigrants, most coming from Asia and Af-
Hundreds of thousands have entered Greece in recent years, and officials said Wednesday some 400 were illegally crossing the land border with Turkey every day before the turkdown.
The Turkish border influx has dropped 84 percent, the police statement said, with 1,121 illegal immigrants arrested there over the past month, compared to 6,991 a year earlier.
EUROPE
Pope gifted electric car for greener traveling
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is now a bit greener.
The 85-year-old pontiff was presented with his first electric car Wednesday, a customized white Renault Kangoo for jaunts around the gardens of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
Benedict has been dubbed the "green pope" for his environmental concerns, which have been a hallmark of his papacy. He has written of the need to protect God's creation in his encyclicals, and raised the issue on his foreign trips and in his annual peace messages.
Under his watch, the Vatican has installed photovoltaic cells on its main auditorium and joined a reforestation project to offset its carbon dioxide emissions.
own ozone-preserving electric car, which he used on Wednesday to travel from the helipad at Castel Gandolfo through the gardens back to his palazzo. He was returning to his retreat in the Alban Hills south of Rome after presiding over his weekly general audience in the Vatican.
But now the pope has his
Earlier this year, Italian automaker NWG donated an electric car to the Vatican, but it was for the press office to use. Renault on Wednesday also turned over the keys to a blue version of the Kangoo for the Vatican gendarmes to tool around Vatican City.
Though Benedict's Renault is white and carries the papal seal on its doors, it isn't a popemobile.
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Pope Benedict XVI is presented with an electric car in Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome on Wednesday. The 85-year-old pontiff was presented with his first electric car on a customized white Renault Kangoo.