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A series of parcel bombs sent to locations in London and Glasgow earlier this year have been connected to devices targeting army offices in 2014. Anti-terror investigators have said they are now “formally linking” the incendiary devices posted in March and explosives sent Read More …
Thirteen personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jharkhand Police were injured in a series of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts allegedly triggered by Maoists in Jharkhand’s Saraikela Kharsawan early on Tuesday, police said. All the injured personnel Read More …
What does it look like when 900 landmines are (safely) detonated at once? Sappers working to disable landmines in the Land of the Monasteries found out last week, as the Israel Defense Force’s Combat Engineering Unit detonated the largest minefield Read More …
An American cargo ship which sank off the Kent coast 74 years ago packed full of explosives could accidentally blow up at any time, causing devastating tsunamis and more than £1 billion of damage. Lying half-submerged near the mouth of Read More …
Twenty-seven Iraqi mine action experts started to get a 15-day training course in Cambodia on Monday, Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mines Action Center (CMAC) said. The Iraqi experts are from the Ministry of Health and Environment, the Read More …
More than 600 people trekked across Salisbury Plain to raise funds for city-based charity The Halo Trust, which helps to clear mines and bombs around the world. Joining Halo’s supporters for the Safe Steps Walk were three former Invictus Games competitors from Read More …
A major tragedy was averted on Monday with timely detection of a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) along the Jammu-Poonch National Highway, prompting the suspension of traffic for nearly one-and-a-half hours, officials said. A bottle filled with a liquid material Read More …
A catalogue of chaos which resulted from the controlled explosion of a Second World War bomb, left residents wondering what damage an uncontrolled one would have caused. Locals were crying in the street, windows of homes smashed and cars wrecked Read More …
Explosive Ordnance Disposal team members performed a controlled live detonation during which they explosively opened and exploited ordnance during Exercise Global Dragon 2019 May 27, 2019, at the Guardian Centers of Georgia, Perry, Georgia. Controlled live detonations help Airmen prepare Read More …
Two men, including the grandson of former lord mayor of Dublin Christy Burke, have received sentences totalling 14 years at the Special Criminal Court after they were caught with four kilograms of the explosive TNT and a hand grenade in Read More …
The incident that occurred at about 9pm on Sunday is a crude bomb attack, police suspect. All personnel in the capital were put on alert from the police control room after the incident. The injured are Traffic Police ASI Rasheda Read More …
At least four people died and seven others were injured in three explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, officials say. The three blasts – one in the centre and two on the outskirts – took place on Sunday afternoon local Read More …
An improvised explosive device was tossed into a vehicle Sunday morning in the 3100 block of North 61st Street in Kansas City, Kansas. The KCK Police Department’s Bomb Unit responded at the request of the KCK Fire Department after the Read More …
A suspected parcel bomb has exploded in the eastern French city of Lyon, injuring at least eight people, local media report. Those hurt in the explosion on Victor-Hugo Street seemed to have suffered superficial injuries to the lower limbs, one Read More …
Even though I was told it was safe, holding an Islamic State group (IS) homemade explosive was still unnerving. Half an hour earlier it had been buried in the ground on the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Fallujah. It Read More …
An explosion ripped through a mosque in Kabul city earlier this afternoon killing one person and injuring at least 16 others. A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Nasrat Rahimi said the incident took place at around 1:20pm local time Read More …
At least three people have been killed and 28 wounded after a bomb exploded at a mosque in the western Pakistani city of Quetta. The explosion took place inside a mosque before Friday prayers, city police chief Abdul Razzaq Cheema told Read More …
The Afghan security forces have killed a senior Taliban leader who was involved in planning and facilitating suicide attacks in North-eastern Kapisa province. A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Nasrat Rahimi said the security forces killed Mullah Abdul Basir, Read More …
Let me start by giving some context on the new use of antipersonnel mines worldwide. In recent years, since the last Review Conference, the use of antipersonnel mines by government forces has been rare. In most years, only one or Read More …
The explosive ordnance disposal team stationed on Al Dhafra Air Base performed a controlled detonation on a 2000-pound bomb May 18, 2019. Staff Sgt. Joseph Schmidt, 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron EOD team leader, said that the bomb was no Read More …
