- New Zealand: Rotorua bomb alert, man admits having explosive in Fordlands
July 27, 2024
An enraged man told police he planted a bomb in a car while brandishing what appeared to be a detonator – putting a Rotorua suburb into lockdown. Police then discovered what appeared to be a grenade in a baby formula tin wedged between the steering wheel and dashboard. Charles Warren Wahanui Rameka, 48, from Rotorua has ...
- Russia: FSB foils militant attacks in Dagestan
July 27, 2024
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had thwarted a series of planned militant attacks in the southern region of Dagestan, state news agency RIA reported. The planned attacks were allegedly aimed at police forces and an Orthodox Christian church. FSB said it had arrested three Russian citizens in the city of Kaspiysk and ...
- Nigeria: At least seven soldiers killed by landmine
July 26, 2024
At least seven Nigerian soldiers were killed after a mine exploded on a highway in Borno state, the hotbed of a Boko Haram militant insurgency, two vigilante officers said on Friday. A local vigilante officer helping to combat the insurgents, said a military vehicle was travelling along the road linking the villages of Monguno and Baga ...
- Cambodia: CMAA warns of increased risk of mines after heavy rain, floods
July 26, 2024
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) called on the public to be vigilant during and after floods because of the risk that they could unearth landmines due to landslides or runoff. According to the announcement from the CMAA on Wednesday, during and after floods, mines and some explosive remnants of war can be ...
- NEED FOR SPEED
July 26, 2024
From fighting tanks in World War I to defeating improvised explosive devices in the Middle East, Soldiers on the battlefield have been forced to adapt and develop innovative countermeasures to emerging threat technologies. On today’s battlefield, one such emerging technology comes in the form of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), which the DOD defines as Groups ...
- Nigeria: Troops defuse IED planted in Yobe cattle market
July 26, 2024
Troops of Sector II Joint Task Force in the North-East Operation “Hadin Kai” on Friday, defused an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted at the Buni Yadi Cattle Market in Yobe. Capt. Mohammed Shehu, Spokesperson of the sector, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu that the IED was planted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, ...
- France’s high-speed train network paralysed by ‘malicious acts’
July 26, 2024
France’s high-speed rail network was hit by “malicious acts” including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF said Friday, hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. A source close to the investigation told AFP the attacks were coordinated acts of “sabotage”. “This is a massive attack on a large scale ...
- Türkiye: Shepherd killed by landmine explosion in Hakkari
July 25, 2024
Bedrettin Düzen, a 32-year-old shepherd, was killed by a landmine explosion in the Doskî Valley region of Yüksekova district in the eastern province of Hakkari. Düzen was grazing his animals when he stepped on a landmine, resulting in severe injuries. He was transported to a hospital in Hakkari, where he later succumbed to his injuries. A ...
- China to offer mine clearance training for Cambodian, Lao military personnel
July 25, 2024
China will offer mine clearance training courses for military personnel from Cambodia and Laos from July to September, a Chinese military spokesperson announced Thursday. Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense, said the courses will be conducted by the Army Engineering University of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and will feature introductions to ...
- Emirati passports discovered in Sudan suggest UAE boots on the ground
July 25, 2024
According to the Guardian, a document sent to the UN Security Council and seen by the newspaper contains images allegedly found in Sudan and linked to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that has been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the country since April 2023. Middle East Eye has reported previously on ...
- Black Sea: Explosives-Packed Jet Ski Drone Appears Off Turkish Coast
July 25, 2024
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 Istanbul. Photos of the craft show that’s fitted with an electro-optical sensor turret and a planar ...
- UK: The moment an unexploded bomb was detonated on Anglesey beach
July 25, 2024
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 were also at the scene. A video of the moment the shell blew up, showed a ...
- Cambodia: CMAC divers recover 24K UXOs from riverbeds
July 25, 2024
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) and salvage the wreckage of vessels which were sunk during past conflicts, according to a report ...
- Tunisia: One injured in landmine explosion in Kasserine Governorate
July 24, 2024
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 47-year-old shepherd was transferred to the Kasserine regional hospital where he is receiving necessary care, the ...
- Kenya: Health crisis looms in Kiambu as residents store looted toxic sodium cyanide
July 24, 2024
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. In the chaotic aftermath, residents, unaware of the extreme danger, descended upon the scene and began ...
- New York: Explosive device found in car outside East Harlem NYPD precinct
July 24, 2024
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 reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a bomb, and assault. Read more… Source: Fox5 New York News Sign up for ...
- Turkey: Perpetrator of Moscow car bomb attack arrested in Bodrum district
July 24, 2024
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 a.m., reporting that Serebriakov had arrived in Türkiye on a Moscow-Bodrum flight. Russian Interpol officials said ...
- India: NSCN-IM major killed, two others injured in IED blast in Ukhrul district
July 24, 2024
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 to a report, the explosion occurred around 7.30 am Wednesday in an area under Border Pillar ...
- The Kurdish women clearing up bombs in Iraq
July 24, 2024
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 using detectors to methodically sweep the ground to find the left-over landmines, unexploded shells and other ...
- Kenya: Police Officer Among Five Injured In Mandera Terrorist Attack
July 24, 2024
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 hotel’s perimeter walls by an unidentified suspect who left the scene immediately after. Read more… Source: Citizen Digital News Sign ...
- The Government of Denmark Provides Additional Contribution to UNMAS in Support of the Mine Action Sector in Iraq
July 24, 2024
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 of explosive ordnance (EO) and will enable humanitarian, socio-economic, and reconstruction efforts. Since 2015, the ...
- Russia: Perpetrator suspected of car bombing in Moscow flees to Turkey
July 24, 2024
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 morning, an explosion occurred in a Toyota Land Cruiser parked on a street in the north ...
- Germany carries out raids and bans a group accused of links to Iran and support for Hezbollah
July 24, 2024
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 Hamburg. The ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, or IZH, and five suborganizations around Germany followed ...
- Red Sea: Ship Security Team Appears To Detonate Explosive-Laden Houthi Drone Boat With Gunfire
July 23, 2024
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 after the last of those shots, the USV exploded. The scenario, which took place July 20 ...
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