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- Japan: Police seize likely explosive powder from attack suspect’s home
April 27, 2023
Police seized powder believed to be used in making explosives at the home of a man accused of throwing an explosive device near Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who was campaigning ...
- ‘I don’t want more children to suffer what I did’: the 50-year fight to clear US bombs from Laos
April 27, 2023
Youa Thaiyang is standing at the edge of his field in the northern Laos province of Xieng Khouang. A slight man of 61, dressed in jeans and flip-flops, he’s showing ...
- Pakistan: Inspector loses life in Khuzdar blast
April 27, 2023
The inspector lost his life on the spot as his vehicle was completely destroyed in the attack. A huge contingent of police reached the spot and shifted the dead body ...
- Nigeria: Five soldiers die in Borno explosion
April 26, 2023
Five Nigerian soldiers died after their vehicle hit a mine suspected to have been planted by Islamic State group-aligned jihadists near the border with Niger, security sources said Wednesday. The unit ...
- Luxembourg: World War II bomb safely detonated on construction site
April 26, 2023
A World-War-II-era bomb was found on a construction site in northern Luxembourg on Wednesday. A bomb from the Second World War was found on Wednesday morning on a construction site in ...
- Seeden: Children directly affected in many bombings
April 26, 2023
This year has seen more bombings than usual in Sweden. Often these are related to gang conflicts, but the violence also affects children to a large extent, according to a ...
- India: At least 11 Jawans killed in IED blast by Naxals in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh
April 26, 2023
Sources said Naxals attacked a patrolling party on Wednesday afternoon on Aranpur road in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada. A Team of DRG was returning in a vehicle to their headquarters when an ...
- Afghanistan: Taliban kills suspected ISIS-K ‘mastermind’ of August 2021 Kabul airport bombing
April 26, 2023
The terrorist allegedly responsible for planning the August 2021 bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans was himself killed by ...
- Azerbaijan: Civilian injured in landmine blast in Tartar
April 26, 2023
A 33-year-old civilian was injured in an anti-personnel landmine explosion in the direction of Sugovushan village of Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, the press service of the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAMA) ...
- Cameroon: Six military personnel killed in bomb explosion in the Far North region
April 25, 2023
At least six Cameroonian military personnel were killed on Monday by an anti-personnel mine explosion in the vicinity of the town of Hiteré, located in the Far North region, according ...
- UK: Loud explosion heard as gang blow up cash machine in Rochdale
April 25, 2023
A cash machine was blown up by gang who struck at a covenience store. Three men attacked the ATM at the Co-op in Castleton, Rochdale last night and escaped with ...
- Germany arrests 28-year-old Syrian over ‘radical Islamist’ bomb plot
April 25, 2023
German authorities arrested a 28-year-old Syrian national on Tuesday morning, one of two brothers suspected of planning to blow up civilian targets using a homemade explosives belt for “radical Islamist ...
- Cyprus: Car bomb explosion in Limassol
April 25, 2023
Police in Limassol were called to the scene of a car bomb that exploded in Limassol in the early hours of Tuesday. According to a statement by Limassol CID, an improvised ...
- Syria: Landmine Explosion Kills 3 Children in al-Hasakah Governorate
April 25, 2023
Three children were killed and two others have been injured when a landmine, reportedly planted by the US occupation forces, exploded in Tal Tamer town in northern Syria. The incident occurred ...
- South Carolina: Man arrested after pipe bomb, homemade firearm found in Summerville home
April 25, 2023
Summerville Police say a man is behind bars after officers found a pipe bomb in his home. During his arrest, officers say they observed a “pipe bomb”, and surrounding neighbors were ...
- Kansas: Wichita police bomb squad responds after homemade pipe bomb is found in empty lot
April 24, 2023
A homemade pipe bomb found in an empty lot in Newton drew response from both Newton and Wichita police. A Newton police offer responded to a call of a “suspicious device” ...
- Fort Bliss, Texas-based team wins all-Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Competition
April 24, 2023
FORT CARSON, Colo. – The U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from the Fort Bliss, Texas-based 734th Ordnance Company (EOD) “Luchadores” won first place in the all-Army EOD Team of ...
- Pakistan: Seven killed, 44 wounded In blasts inside police station in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
April 24, 2023
At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in an attack inside a counter-terrorism police station in Pakistan on Monday, causing the building to collapse, officials said. Numerous blasts ripped ...
- UK: Sharnbrook man charged after explosion at a house
April 24, 2023
A man has been charged after an explosion at a house. The small explosion happened at a property in Loring Road in Sharnbrook on 10 April. Bedfordshire Police said Matthew Haydon, ...
- Northern Ireland: Newtownards petrol bomb attack may be linked to drugs feud
April 23, 2023
A petrol bomb attack in County Down could be linked to an ongoing feud between rival drugs gangs, police say. Just before 23:00 BST on Friday, police received a report that ...
- Mali: At least 10 killed, dozens wounded in central Mopti attack
April 22, 2023
At least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded in a bomb attack near a military camp and airport in central Mali, according to an official and ...
- UK: Glasgow man caught with three explosive devices under seat of car while out driving
April 22, 2023
A man who was caught with three improvised explosive devices under the driver’s seat of his car when police stopped the vehicle in Glasgow’s east end has been jailed for ...
- Ukraine’s Defence Ministry reports number of landmine fatalities since start of full-scale invasion
April 22, 2023
124 people, including 6 children, have been killed by explosive devices in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Ruslan Berehulia, Head of the Department of Environmental Safety and Anti-mine ...
- Ukraine: Several dozen anti-tank minefields, barriers set up in the Northern Operational Zone past week
April 22, 2023
Throughout the past week alone, Ukraine’s defense forces have planted several dozen more anti-tank minefields and erected special barriers in the Northern Operational Zone, also digging nearly 3,000 meters of ...
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