December 3, 2009, was a day of horrible and freak explosions — and they were not all in Pakistan.

In Somalia, as many as 19 people died, including three or four government ministers, at a college graduation ceremony. It is believed a suicide bomber is responsible for the attack that seems like it was targeting government officials. Most of the dead were students.

In Damascus, three people died at a explosion at a gas station. The Wall Street Journal reports that Syria’s interior minister, Said Mohammad Sammour, ruled out a terrorist attack. A bus driver and two gas station workers were killed during the odd explosion that took place when they were adding air to a tyre.

Even South Korea was victim to a freak blast. A military research test resulted in one person being killed when an explosion inside an artillery gun occurred. The test-fire of the artillery shell wounded five others.

And in Pakistan, Peshawar was rocked by another blast on Thursday. Dawn reported that one policeman was injured in the line of duty as the blast occurred at a police check-post on the outskirts of Peshawar. This blast came a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Naval headquarters in Islamabad.