13 injured in Australia shopping centre blast: officials

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Source: afp

AFP - Thirteen people were wounded after a man detonated a makeshift bomb made of fuel and fireworks in a shopping mall in the northern Australian city of Darwin, officials said Wednesday.

"There was an explosion... caused by a mixture of fuel and fireworks," an ambulance spokeswoman told AFP.
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A man who surrendered himself to officials shortly after the 11:00 am blast had been taken into custody, police said.

Media reports said the injured included a police officer who suffered smoke inhalation. Sky News cited witnesses as saying a man pushed a shopping trolley loaded with cans of fuel and fireworks into an insurance company office.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100203-13-injured-australia-shopping-centre-blast-officials

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1. That sucks.

I hope they will be OK. I met two wonderful people, here in NOLA while working as bartender, from Darwin. They were surprised a "Yank" (I schooled them on that word) knew where Darwin was.