Cellphone Explosion

A twelve-year-old boy died after a cellphone exploded at his home in a village in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh.

The demand for once-popular landline phone has been dwindling as cheap mobile handsets have led to an explosion in cellphone connectivity.

An explosion in a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and leveled buildings for blocks in every direction. A witness caught the Texas fertilizer plant blast with his cellphone camera. Erick Perez stopped to record the fire while...

A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.

Pakistani Shi'ites, targeted in three explosions which killed 16 people on Wednesday, are now receiving death threat text messages on cellphones ahead of a key event in their religious calendar that has been tainted by violence in the past.

The three bombs that shook Mumbai on Wednesday were Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), prepared with a deadly mixture of ammonium nitrate, Tri-Nitrate Toluene (TNT) and fuel oil. Ball bearings were used as shrapnel and smart cellphones as timers.

A hazy picture is gradually emerging of how the blasts took place - sophisticated Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were used; they were triggered by alarms set on cellphones. No sim cards have been found at the locations of the blasts.  Two of the bombs used over a kilo of explosives."Preliminary investigations indicate the use of IEDs with...

A twelve-year-old boy died after a cellphone exploded at his home in a village in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh.

The demand for once-popular landline phone has been dwindling as cheap mobile handsets have led to an explosion in cellphone connectivity.

An explosion in a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and leveled buildings for blocks in every direction. A witness caught the Texas fertilizer plant blast with his cellphone camera. Erick Perez stopped to record the fire while...

A law enforcement official says cellphone service has been shut down in the Boston area to prevent any potential remote detonations of explosives.

Pakistani Shi'ites, targeted in three explosions which killed 16 people on Wednesday, are now receiving death threat text messages on cellphones ahead of a key event in their religious calendar that has been tainted by violence in the past.

The three bombs that shook Mumbai on Wednesday were Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), prepared with a deadly mixture of ammonium nitrate, Tri-Nitrate Toluene (TNT) and fuel oil. Ball bearings were used as shrapnel and smart cellphones as timers.

A hazy picture is gradually emerging of how the blasts took place - sophisticated Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were used; they were triggered by alarms set on cellphones. No sim cards have been found at the locations of the blasts.  Two of the bombs used over a kilo of explosives."Preliminary investigations indicate the use of IEDs with...