"It happened so fast."Jack Russell, the lead singer of Great White, told WJAR–TV he checked with the club's manager before the show and the band's use of pyrotechnics was approved. He said he felt the heat of the flames while on stage."This place went up like the Fourth of July," he said.Town Manager Wolfgang Bauer couldn't speculate on the specific cause, but said a flame from the pyrotechnics display hit styrofoam in the ceiling."Everbody knows there were pyrotechnics used in there," he said "We found people in a corner of the building. So there are dead people in there."Great White is a 1980s heavy metal band whose hits include "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" and "Rock Me." The concert also featured the group Fathead.The fire comes four days after 21 people were killed and more than 50 injured during a stampede in a Chicago nightclub that began when a security guard used pepper spray to break up a fight.. Fire broke out today at an oil refinery on the edge of Staten Island, a borough of New York City, sending black smoke and flames thousands of feet into the air.

(1500 GMT).The explosion, which could be heard several miles away, occurred at the edge of Port Mobil, near the Outerbridge Crossing that links the island to Woodbridge, New Jersey, in the south-western part of Staten Island.Fire Chief William Van Ward of the New York Fire Department told a local TV station: "A barge was being refueled and it somehow caught fire." The FBI spokesman Steve Kodak said there was no indication of terrorism. However, FBI officials in Washington said they were still examining it because a refinery is the type of infrastructure terrorists might target.. A British man working in Saudi Arabia was shot dead in his car yesterday, raising fears over the safety of Westerners living in the Middle East. He is thought to be a naturalised Saudi citizen of Yemeni origin.No motive is known for the killing but it comes at a time of heightened anti-US and anti-British sentiment in the Gulf over a possible attack on Iraq.On Wednesday, the Foreign Office upgraded its travel warnings on some Middle East countries, advising its citizens in Iraq to leave the country and warning against travelling to Kuwait, Israel and the Palestinian territories. It cited "increasing regional tension and the risk of terrorist action". A Foreign Office spokesman said nobody could yet say whether the shooting was linked to terrorism.

Yesterday's attack took place on Khaled bin al-Waleed Street in the Granada district of Riyadh and the victim died instantly.Mr Dent, who had two children, worked as a commercial officer at BAE Systems in Riyadh. He was on a day off when the incident took place, between 1pm and 3pm UK time. Mike Sweeney, a BAE Systems spokesman in Britain, said the attacker pulled alongside the victim in another car when he stopped at the lights.He added that employees who returned to Britain for the Muslim festival of Eid 11 days ago had been given the option to remain at home, due to ongoing uncertainty regarding security. Walid Abukhaled, a spokesman for the company in Saudi Arabia, which employs about 5,500 people at sites in the country, said: "This is very sad news. The company has been in Saudi Arabia for 30 years and enjoyed good relationships here. We are all very shocked and really feel for his family."Mr Abukhaled said the company was in the process of contacting Mr Dent's relatives in Britain.