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- Nigeria: DSS arrests ISWAP commander behind Kogi bomb blast, Kuje prison attack
January 5, 2023
The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested an Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) member over the blast near the Palace of Ohinoyi of Ebiraland in Okene, Kogi State. The ...
- DR Congo: MONUSCO holds training for police officers in Beni on handling IEDs
January 5, 2023
The threat is real.” Police officials in Beni acknowledge that the city is still under threat from improvised explosive devices. In 2021, on the evening of the Christmas celebration, a device ...
- Somalia: Death toll from car bomb blasts in Hiraan region rises to 35
January 4, 2023
Al-Shabaab militants detonated two car bombs killing at least 35 people and leveling several houses in central Somalia’s Hiraan region on Wednesday, a government-allied militia and a local elder said. The ...
- DR Congo: Lost grenade kills two children in South Kivu province
January 4, 2023
Two children have died and six people been wounded in eastern DR Congo after a grenade they discovered during a bird-hunt exploded, local officials said on Tuesday. A group of youngsters ...
- Iowa: Improvised explosive device removed from Cedar Rapids alleyway
January 4, 2023
The Cedar Rapids Metro Hazardous Devices Unit removed an improvised explosive device from an alley behind a residence on the 1700 block of Park Ave. SE Tuesday morning. Police were called ...
- Türkiye: Over 100-Year-Old WWI bomb exploded by robot
January 3, 2023
An over 100-year-old bomb has finally exploded in Turkey. Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula was the location of one of WWI’s bloodiest battles. A dangerous remnant of that conflict, which raged from ...
- Cambodia: CMAC vows to clear 265km2 of landmines, UXOs in 2023
January 3, 2023
Reiterating its support to the efforts of authorities to make Cambodia a mine-free nation by 2025, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) has pledged to clear more than 265 square ...
- Robert W. ‘Wes’ Wheeler Jr. Named Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office
January 3, 2023
Director Christopher Wray has named Robert W. “Wes” Wheeler Jr. as the special agent in charge of the Chicago Field Office. Mr. Wheeler most recently served as the chief of ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: 2 children among 6 people killed in southern Rajouri district attack
January 2, 2023
Two children were killed and five other civilians wounded in a blast in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, a day after assailants sprayed bullets toward a row of ...
- Complex violence defies military operations in restive east Congo
January 2, 2023
There was hope last week that mounting violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo could ebb, after the feared M23 group agreed to surrender territories to the East African Community ...
- IDEX and NAVDEX 2023 to showcase a range of new and exciting features
January 2, 2023
Under the Patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE 16th edition of IDEX and 7th of Navdex organised by ADNEC Group at Abu Dhabi ...
- New Zealand: Seven pipe bombs, two suspects and zero leads in Hamilton attack
January 2, 2023
The pair behind a pipe-bomb attack on a money machine that left shrapnel holes in a suburban New Zealand mall and unexploded devices laying about appear to have got away ...
- India: Bomb shell found near Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann’s helipad in Chandigarh
January 2, 2023
A live bomb shell was found near Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Chandigarh on Monday. The place where the bomb shell was found is also just a short ...
- Brazil: Man carrying explosive device and knife arrested, military police say
January 1, 2023
A man carrying an explosive device and a knife has been arrested while attempting to enter the inauguration of Brazil’s new president, according to military police. The man was trying to ...
- Minnesota: East Range Police Find Explosives In Aurora Home
January 1, 2023
A man in his 30s was arrested in Aurora on Saturday after police say they recovered explosives in their home. The East Range Police Department says it executed a search warrant ...
- Pakistan: 2022 ends with deadliest month for security forces after decade
January 1, 2023
The year 2022 ended with the deadliest month for Pakistan’s security personnel over a decade with the emergence of a new terror triad, comprising Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army ...
- UK: Bomb squad explodes suspected Second World War shell on Brighton beach
January 1, 2023
An explosion has rocked part of the city after a shell thought to be from the Second World War was destroyed on Brighton beach. Bomb disposal teams were called and a ...
- Afghanistan: Several feared dead in blast outside Kabul military airport
January 1, 2023
An explosion outside the military airport in Kabul has caused multiple casualties, a spokesman for the Taliban-run interior ministry said. “Today morning an explosion took place outside Kabul military airport, due ...
- For Senegalese landmine victims, a forgotten conflict lives on
December 31, 2022
Night was falling, and Boubacar Ba was once again hunting in the forest outside his hometown of Mpak in southern Senegal. Then a crack rang out, not from his rifle ...
- Kenyan soldier killed and four others injured in roadside bomb blast in Lamu county
December 30, 2022
One Kenya Defence Forces soldier has been killed while four others injured at the Mlima Faru area in Lamu county. The soldier was killed after their vehicle drove over an Improvised ...
- Malaysia: Explosive device that killed man in Pandan was a ‘homemade bomb’
December 30, 2022
Police believe the explosive device that killed a a 28-year-old cook outside a restaurant in Pandan Indah was a homemade bomb. Police arrived at the conclusion after having discovered certain items ...
- Washington: Police arrest suspect who placed a pipe bomb in a SODO parking garage
December 29, 2022
Police arrested a man who placed a pipe bomb in an underground parking garage in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood on Thursday. According to the Seattle Police Department (SPD), just after 8:00 a.m., ...
- Nigeria: Explosion rocks Kogi minutes before Buhari’s visit
December 29, 2022
An explosion occurred Thursday in Kogi State minutes before President Muhammadu Buhari was to commission a project in the North-central state. Residents said the explosion, believed to be from a bomb, ...
- UK: World War One artillery shell found by magnet fishers in Worcester destroyed in a controlled explosion
December 29, 2022
A World War One artillery bomb was disposed of via a controlled explosion on farmland in Worcestershire. South Quay by the River Severn in Worcester was cordoned off and emergency services ...
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