Nigeria: EU to provide C-IED, C-UAS and night-vision equipment in €20 million support package to Armed Forces

The European Union has has revealed that its 20 million euros facility for Nigeria would fund Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) equipment, Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS), night vision capabilities and individual protective gear for deployed troops. This was revealed during strategic Read More …

Ireland: ‘Crude but viable’ device made safe in Dublin

A “crude but viable” device found at a building in Dublin’s Merrion Square today has been made safe, gardaí have said. The army’s bomb disposal unit was asked to attend the scene after gardaí were alerted to the discovery of Read More …

India: Man dies after a crude bomb disguised as a sweet explodes in his mouth

Rajendra Barautiya Rajendra was sitting with his family after dinner when the accused came and handed him the explosive disguised as a sweet. The moment he consumed the sweet, it exploded inside his mouth. Rajendra was immediately taken to the Read More …

Russia: Former aide to pro-Russian Ukrainian PM seriously injured in Moscow car blast

A onetime spokesman to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was hospitalized in serious condition Friday after an explosion beneath his SUV in southern Moscow, the second such explosion in the country in two days. Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed that Sergei Read More …

A fresh wave of bomb threats hit schools in Italy and France

A fresh wave of emailed bomb threats reached head teachers at several schools in Italy on Thursday morning, prompting some to evacuate while authorities carried out checks at others. The messages were signed “Mikhail Andropov”, the same name that appeared Read More …

Pakistan: BLA claims 18 Pakistani personnel killed in Majeed Brigade attack in Mastung

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Pakistani military camp in Mastung district, saying 18 personnel were killed. In a statement issued to the media, BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch said the group’s Majeed Brigade Read More …

Russia: Aerospace Forces officer killed in car blast in St. Petersburg

A senior Russian military officer was killed when an explosive device detonated under his vehicle in a southern suburb of St. Petersburg, investigators said Thursday. The explosion occurred at around 7:00 a.m. local time in the city’s Pushkinsky district, according Read More …

Schools in Italy, U.K. and Ireland get hoax bomb threats

Thousands of schools across Europe received apparently hoax bomb threats Wednesday, prompting mass evacuations in Italy. The threatening messages were sent to at least 6,300 schools in Italy alone, as well as hundreds in Ireland and across the U.K. There Read More …

UN warns of growing threat from landmines in Afghanistan

The United Nations warned of the continuing threat posed by explosive war remnants to the lives of civilians in vast areas of Afghanistan. The UN warning came simultaneously with previous data from “Save the Children,” which documented the killing and Read More …

Ukraine: One person killed and another injured in the Chernihiv region after a car struck a landmine

In the Horodnya community of the Chernihiv district, a passenger car struck an explosive device while traveling on a dirt road. As a result of the explosion, a man born in 1970 was killed, and another passenger, born in 2008, Read More …

Pakistan: Security forces recover huge cache of IEDs in North Waziristan

Security forces seized a cache of weapons and explosives hidden inside mosques during a targeted intelligence operation in Mozak village, located in the North Waziristan district of the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military’s public relations wing announced. In an Read More …

Kenya: KDF neutralises explosive device in Lamu

Vigilance, operational readiness and swift response remain critical in countering security threats and safeguarding lives in operational areas. For Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) troops deployed under Operation Amani Boni (OAB), every patrol plays a vital role in detecting hidden dangers, Read More …

Spain: Police officer is killed and another seriously injured in an explosion in Oviedo

A National Police officer has died and another has been seriously injured in an explosion that occurred on Tuesday morning in a building in the Villafría neighborhood of Oviedo, as confirmed by police sources to RTVE. It all began with Read More …

Bangladesh: Over 50 blasts, 8 buses torched in Dhaka

Panic gripped the Dhaka University campus on Sunday evening as a series of crude bomb explosions, which also struck several other locations across the capital, deepened public fear. The evening rush had not yet subsided on campus when two loud Read More …

Pakistani Forces targeted in drone and IED attacks in Mastung and Kalat

Pakistani forces came under drone and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks in Balochistan’s Mastung and Kalat districts on Monday, while armed fighters seized two commercial vehicles during a blockade of the Quetta–Taftan highway in Chagai, local sources said. At least Read More …

Maryland: Joint EOD partnership connects lands, maritime explosive-ordnance missions

Capt. Paul Mahoney, Commanding Officer of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division (NSWC IHD) in Maryland, visited U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) experts at Picatinny to gain a deeper understanding of how Army EOD units train, organize, Read More …

Poland: Krakow shooting left six people dead

Six people were killed and 16 were injured after a shooting in Krakow’s Main Market Square on Saturday afternoon, in what Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an act of “terrorism.” Police said the bodies of the suspect’s 53-year-old father, Read More …

Pakistan: Bomb Disposal Squad official killed in IED explosion in South Waziristan

An assistant head of the police’s Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was martyred after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in the Janta area of Sararogha tehsil in Upper South Waziristan district on Saturday while he was attempting to defuse Read More …

UK: Seven arrested as police and firefighters targeted with fireworks across Scotland

Seven people were arrested as police officers, firefighters and ambulance crews came under attack during Bonfire Night disorder across Scotland. Police received 1,024 fireworks-related calls between 31 October and 5 November, an increase from 833 last year, although the force Read More …

Colombia: The UN denounces the car bomb attack in Cauca

The United Nations has condemned this Thursday the “indiscriminate” attack carried out the day before with a vehicle loaded with explosives on the Pan-American Highway, in the department of Cauca, in the southwest of Colombia, where a 20-year-old young man Read More …