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- Colombia: Explosion in Cauca after the opening of COP16
October 22, 2024
Colombian guerrillas detonated explosives on Monday as a military vehicle passed by in El Bordo, Cauca, a region where three civilians were also killed, authorities said Tuesday. And although the site ...
- India: 6-yr-old boy injured in crude bomb blast in Malda
October 22, 2024
A crude bomb explosion in the Dogpukur area of Ward 23 in English Bazar Municipality area left a six-year-old boy injured on Tuesday afternoon. The child, identified as Banti Kumar Mahato, ...
- Japan searches for buried WWII bombs at airports after one explodes near plane
October 22, 2024
A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded in early October at Japan’s Miyazaki Airport. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, bombs that didn’t detonate still turn up nationwide. Two more ...
- India: Major Counter-Terror Raids in Kashmir Disrupt Militant Recruitment
October 22, 2024
In a major operation, the Counter-Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) unit raided six districts to dismantle a terrorist recruitment module tied to a group linked with Lashkar-e-Taiba. The move follows attacks which have ...
- Estonian deminers find over 700 explosives in Latvia
October 22, 2024
Estonian bomb disposal experts found 728 explosive devices during a two-week international training exercise in Latvia. The eight-member team searched an area of around 9,000 square meters in Cekule, close ...
- Somalia strives to deepen security ties with Uganda, Burundi
October 21, 2024
Somalia’s president wrapped up official visits to Uganda and Burundi as part of efforts to deepen security ties with the two nations, which have been among the main contributors of ...
- Florida: Controlled demolition of WWII-era bombs in Choctawhatchee Bay set for later this week
October 21, 2024
Eglin Air Force Base officials are advising the public of a planned demolition in Choctawhatchee Bay later this week. According to a release, divers from the Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile ...
- Kenya: Two university students innovate robot IED detector to help in war on terrorism
October 21, 2024
Two Technical University of Mombasa students have innovated a bomb detector robot that can be used in insecurity prone areas like Lamu. The innovation is such that the robot car, which ...
- Biosafety: Laboratory Planning and Preparedness to Mitigate Risk
October 21, 2024
Biosafety is focused on reducing the risk of people, animals, and the environment being accidentally exposed to dangerous biological materials such as viruses and bacteria. More formally, biosafety is a ...
- Nigeria: UK, UN train Nigeria Police, NSCDC on explosive risk
October 21, 2024
The Government of the United Kingdom, UK, has provided training support for 75 officers of the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. The Explosive ...
- TSA: Tri-agency collaboration printing outside the lines
October 21, 2024
Louisiana Lead Explosives Specialist and Innovation Officer Mike Nelson’s invention puts new field explosive screening kits at the tips of officers’ fingers. The unassuming holder neatly organizes and conveniently dispenses ...
- Kashmir: Seven killed in militant attack in Ladakh
October 21, 2024
At least six migrant workers and a doctor were shot dead in Indian-administered Kashmir when militants launched an attack near a construction site. It comes days after a new government ...
- Myanmar: China strongly condemns explosion attack on Consulate-General in Mandalay
October 21, 2024
China expressed deep shock at an attack at its Consulate-General in Mandalay, Myanmar, and strongly condemned the act, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian at a regular press ...
- Türkiye confirms death of FETO terror group’s ringleader Fetullah Gulen
October 21, 2024
Turkish intelligence has confirmed the death of FETO terror group’s ringleader Fetullah Gulen, Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday. Gulen had been living in the US state of Pennsylvania. ...
- Utah: Kaysville Police called to detonate pipe bomb near school
October 20, 2024
The Kaysville Police Department responded to a call involving a homemade explosive near an elementary school Saturday afternoon, which ended up being a pipe bomb. The suspicious homemade firework or pipe ...
- Israel: Explosive device found beneath car in Be’er Ya’acov, bomb squad defuses device
October 20, 2024
An explosive device was discovered under a parked car on a main street in Be’er Ya’acov in central Israel, Walla reported on Wednesday morning. Initial investigations raised suspicion that the ...
- Pakistan: Four killed as two TTP groups clash in South Waziristan
October 20, 2024
Four militants, including a local commander, were killed in a fierce exchange of fire between two factions of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in South Waziristan district on Saturday, sources ...
- India: ‘Foul smell, crude bomb material’, what investigators found at Delhi CRPF School blast site
October 20, 2024
The Delhi police said on Sunday that they found a foul smell at the blast site outside CRPF School in the national capital. The blast destroyed the school’s wall and ...
- The new front against Iran and its proxies: Underwater
October 20, 2024
Israel and Iran have been clashing directly and through the Islamic republic’s proxies over the past year. These confrontations occur in the air, on land, at sea, and even in ...
- Cambodia still has 1,700 Square kilometres of landmines, affecting 1 million citizens
October 20, 2024
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said that Cambodia still has 1,700 square kilometres of land contaminated with landmines and unexploded ordnance, affecting around 1 million citizens living in suspected areas. The ...
- Israel: 401st Brigade commander Col. Ehsan Daxa killed in northern Gaza
October 20, 2024
The commander of the IDF’s 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade, Col. Ehsan Daxa, was killed in combat in northern Gaza, the military announced on Sunday evening. Col. Daxa was 41 years ...
- 15th MEU Conducts CBRN Defense Training With Philippine Armed Forces, National Police
October 19, 2024
Philippine National Police and coast guardsmen walk through a cloud of chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS gas, during chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear defense training with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit ...
- Pakistan: Punjab CTD foils major terror plan, arrests 7 terrorists in province-wide operations
October 19, 2024
The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday said it had “foiled a major terror plan by arresting seven terrorists belonging to a banned organisation” during 129 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) ...
- Czech police aid in demining efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 19, 2024
Nine Czech police bomb disposal experts recently participated in demining operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the mission, which took place from Sept. 21 to Oct. 5, 2024, the Czech team ...
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