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Latest News
- Nepal: Pressure cooker bomb explodes in Butwal
May 12, 2022
A bomb has exploded at Milanchowk in Butwal on the eve of local elections. The bomb exploded at around 8:30 PM on Wednesday. According to the Area Police Office, Butwal, a ...
- Texas: San Antonio man found with pipe bomb filled with ball bearing, metal arrowheads
May 12, 2022
A man who was found asleep in his car in a Northeast Side neighborhood had a pipe bomb filled with a ball bearing and metal arrowheads, according to San Antonio ...
- Russia: Gunpowder blast at military unit in Far East kills one, injures several others
May 12, 2022
A gunpowder explosion took place in a military installation in the Teysin settlement in the Amursky district of the Khabarovsk Region, one serviceman died, seven people were injured, a source ...
- Cambodia: Experts remove 640 UXO from Mekong River in Prey Veng province
May 12, 2022
Experts of Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) have found about 2,000 shells and 640 unexploded ordnances (UXO) weighing about 8 tonnes on the river basin of Mekong. In the ongoing operation ...
- Ohio: OUPD’s newest K9 team graduates from Explosive Detection Canine school
May 12, 2022
Ohio University Police Department’s (OUPD) newest K9 team graduated from Explosive Detection Canine (EDC) school last Friday, May 6. The team of OUPD officer Brandon King and his canine partner, ...
- Mine clearance in Ukraine may take 5-10 years
May 11, 2022
“Based on international experience, mine clearance may take from 5 to 10 years,” Oleh Bondar, Head of the Pyrotechnic Works and Humanitarian Demining Department of the State Emergency Service of ...
- Somalia: 4 killed in Mogadishu suicide blast ahead of presidential vote
May 11, 2022
Somali police say at least four people have been killed by a suicide explosion that targeted a checkpoint near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu. “I saw four people dead at ...
- UK: Army disposal team called to Bury St Edmunds as suspected bombs dug up on Suffolk construction site
May 11, 2022
Army bomb disposal experts were called in after suspected mortar bombs were dug up at a construction site in Suffolk. An exclusion area was put in place following the discovery at ...
- DASA UK: Countering IEDs with novel electronic technologies
May 11, 2022
DASA is searching for Counter-IED technologies that use novel Radio Frequency (RF) techniques DASA has launched a new Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Countering IEDs by Novel Technology and Techniques. Seeking novel ...
- Nigeria: Explosion Hits Military Base In Taraba
May 11, 2022
An Army base in Jalingo, the capital of Taraba in northeastern Nigeria has been sealed off by the military after an explosion hit the base on Tuesday night, May 10. The ...
- Togo: Eight soldiers killed in the Kpendjal prefecture, raising spectre of first deadly Islamist attack
May 11, 2022
Eight soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in an attack in northern Togo on Wednesday, the government said, marking potentially the first deadly raid on its territory by Islamist militants ...
- Afghanistan: Bomb hits UN car in Kunar province
May 10, 2022
A United Nations vehicle has been hit by a bomb in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, a local Taliban official says. The provincial director of information and culture department, Najibullah Hanif, told ...
- India: Punjab Police intelligence HQ in Mohali came under attack from a suspected rocket-propelled grenade
May 10, 2022
The Punjab Police’s Mohali-based intelligence wing headquarters came under attack from a suspected rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) on Monday evening. The RPG was fired at the third floor of the highly ...
- India: Bag containing 54 detonators with a low intensity explosives found near Nagpur Railway station
May 10, 2022
A bag containing 54 detonators with a low intensity explosives were found in front of Nagpur Railway station’s main gate on Monday evening. According to the police, a black bag was ...
- In Afghanistan, Landmines Are Making Peace Deadly
May 10, 2022
On the morning of April 1, seven children were playing in the lush wheat fields of Afghanistan’s Marjah district, in the southern Helmand province, by tossing around a metal object. ...
- UK: Police carry out two controlled explosions after reports of suspicious vehicle in Westminster
May 9, 2022
Police have carried out two controlled explosions in Westminster following reports of a suspicious vehicle. Earlier, officers set up a cordon and closed roads near Parliament Square. The Queen Elizabeth II Centre ...
- Engineer from Ranchi built drones for IS, revolutionised terror tech
May 9, 2022
Enraged by the Gujarat ‘pogrom’ and in search of retribution, an 18-year-old college student’s existential crisis had crystallised in a battle over his beard. For more than a year, Syed Muhammad ...
- India: 2 arrested with IED, 1.5kg RDX in Punjab’s Tarn Taran village
May 9, 2022
Police thwarted a possible terror attack and arrested two bike-borne men with an improvised explosive device (IED) packed with around 1.5kg of RDX following a tip-off at Naushehra Pannuan village ...
- UK: Teenager arrested after homemade bomb parts found at house in Lancashire
May 7, 2022
A teenage boy has been detained after the discovery of homemade bomb parts inside a house – which prompted a major emergency services response and evacuations. Police descended on a residential ...
- Afghanistan: Security forces seized explosives, 20 hand grenades, weapons and ammunition in Balkh province
May 7, 2022
Security forces arrested two people in connection with the smuggling of ammunition and explosives from Chaharkant district of Balkh province. Some of the detainees were found with some explosives, 20 hand ...
- Egyptian Armed Forces foils terrorist attack in Sinai, an officer and 10 soldiers killed
May 7, 2022
According to the statement, the attack was foiled by the checkpoint personnel, but it resulted in the death of an officer and 10 soldiers as well as the injury of ...
- Germany: Berlin authorities looking into device disabled at residence housing Russian media
May 7, 2022
Berlin criminal investigators and prosecutors were on Saturday studying a device found and destroyed at a residential building housing Russian news agency staff in the city’s Steglitz district, Berlin authorities ...
- Cambodia: CMAC’s expert team recovers 2,000 pound U.S. aerial bomb from riverbed in Phnom Penh
May 7, 2022
A Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC)’s bomb expert team on Thursday safely removed a war-left unexploded AN-M66 aerial bomb from the Chaktomuk River in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, a ...
- UK: Terror-accused student ‘wanted a full-on war’
May 6, 2022
A would-be terrorist hatched plans for a “full-on war” and wrote recipes for a bomb intended for use on a police station, a jury heard. Student Luke Skelton wanted to run ...
- India: Explosion in Manipur capital Imphal, second in 24 hours
May 6, 2022
An explosive device went off near the entrance of a residential area in Manipur capital Imphal early on Friday, the second explosion to have been reported in 24 hours, police ...
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