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A highly-modified jet ski loaded with explosives has been found off the Turkish coast near Istanbul. According to reports in the Turkish media, the adapted jet ski was found drifting off the coast of the district of Çatalca, close to Read More …
This is the moment an unexploded bomb was detonated on an Anglesey beach. The bomb squad was called to Ynys y Fydlyn, in the north of the island and the beach was cordoned off while it was exploded. Coastguard teams Read More …
More than 24,000 unexploded ordnance (UXOs) items of all kinds have been recovered from the Kingdom’s rivers and waterways in the past year and four months. The operations are part of a campaign to clear explosive remnants of war (ERWs) Read More …
A civilian was injured on Tuesday in the explosion of a landmine in the military buffer zone of Jabal Salloum in Tunisia’s western province of Kasserine, the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) reported. Wounded in his leg and right hand, the Read More …
A road accident in Kiambu County has rapidly escalated into a potential public health disaster with far-reaching consequences. On Saturday, a truck ferrying 22 tonnes of sodium cyanide en route to Uganda overturned, spilling its lethal cargo in Kambembe, Rironi. Read More …
Police say a domestic dispute led to a homemade “potentially viable improvised explosive device” being discovered inside a car in East Harlem on Wednesday morning. Chontrell Wrencik, 50, the man accused of having the device, is facing multiple charges, including Read More …
Evgenii Serebriakov, who allegedly carried out a car bomb attack in Russia’s capital Moscow, was captured in Türkiye on Wednesday, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. Yerlikaya said on X that Russian Interpol officials contacted Türkiye’s Interpol/Europol Department at 10.30 Read More …
At least a major of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) was killed and two others left injured after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded along the Indo-Myanmar border close to Wangli village under Ukhrul district on Wednesday. According Read More …
Across the world, women are increasingly doing what has traditionally been a man’s job – clearing landmines and unexploded bombs left over after decades of conflict. This dangerous and highly skilled task involves painstakingly marking suspected contaminated land and then Read More …
Five people, including a police constable, sustained varying injuries on Wednesday after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off at Heritage Hotel in Mandera County, in a suspected terror attack. Police say the IED was placed on one of the Read More …
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Iraq welcomes an additional contribution of DKK 22,000,000 (approximately USD 3,173,170) from the Government of Denmark, which will contribute to support the Government of Iraq (GoI) to protect civilians from the threat Read More …
The man suspected of blowing up a Toyota Land Cruiser in northern Moscow has fled to Turkey, so Russian law enforcement officials are in talks on his extradition, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov told reporters. On Wednesday Read More …
The German government on Wednesday banned an organization accused of being an “outpost” of Iran’s theocracy, promoting the ideology of its leadership and supporting Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group. Police raided 53 properties around the country, including a prominent mosque in Read More …
As the Houthi uncrewed surface vessel (USV) steadily approached the Liberian-flagged container ship Pumba in the Red Sea, its security crew fired about two dozen shots in about 14 seconds from their Steyr rifles. Video emerging from that encounter showed Read More …
A local resident unearthed around 50 unexploded PMN-type anti-personal landmines in a field in Battambang province’s O’Kaki village on July 21, according to a National Police statement. According to the July 22 announcement, the unexploded ordnance (UXO) was discovered in Read More …
Security measures at the Paris Summer Olympics have been ramped up ahead of the games. As many as 45,000 police and 18,000 soldiers are guarding the event and the city, with two police dogs and dog handlers coming from Finland. The Read More …
Eight police officers were injured in twin bomb attacks in Pattani and neighbouring Songkhla in what is seen as an act of reprisal for the recent arrest of a suspected insurgent leader. Police said the first attack took place at Read More …
In its resolution 77/64, entitled “Countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devices”, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its seventy-ninth session on the implementation of that resolution, acknowledging and taking into account existing efforts, both inside and outside the United Read More …
Bomb disposal experts of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have seized and destroyed a FAB-500 aerial bomb in the village of Malynivka in Pokrovsk district, Donetsk Oblast. It is noted that the bomb was found during an examination of Read More …
An unexploded wartime bomb was detonated by experts at Powfoot beach. The World War II mortar had been discovered by a man with a metal detector who alerted the emergency services. And on Friday morning the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team Read More …