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A British bomb disposal expert has been injured in an attack on a UN facility in the Gaza Strip, the charity he works for has said. The 51-year-old, who was not named, was one of five people injured in an Read More …
More than 80 years since the Battle of Guadalcanal in Solomon Islands, communities today are still grappling with the unexploded devices left behind. The major battle in World War Two resulted in thousands of unexploded and abandoned ordnaces (UXOs/AXOs) that Read More …
Security forces on Wednesday recovered two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from Bandipora and Pulwama districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The first ED was recovered near Sunset Point along the Bandipora-Srinagar national highway. A police official said a Bomb Read More …
Sappers are conducting demining operations in 36 liberated settlements within the Kursk Region. Currently, approximately 19,000 hectares of land, over 370 kilometers of roads, and more than 6,700 buildings and structures have been cleared of explosives, according to Alexander Khinshtein, Read More …
FORT BELVOIR, Va. – U.S. Army Explosives Ordnance Disposal technicians honed their lifesaving and mission-enabling skills during a law enforcement exercise on Fort Belvoir, Virginia. EOD Soldiers from the 55th Ordnance Company (EOD) participated in the exercise with other Fort Read More …
Residents have been evacuated from their homes after a suspected WWII bomb was found. Kent Police were contacted at 09.18GMT on Thursday following the discovery in a garden on Kirby Road, Dartford. Officers, along with a Ministry of Defence bomb Read More …
JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear experts from across the federal government, military, state and local entities, industry, and academia gathered in Washington, D.C., March 11-12, for the 13th Annual Joint Civil & DoD CBRN Symposium to Read More …
TUNIS, Tunisia – A controlled detonation shakes the ground as a cloud of smoke rises over the training range. For explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technicians, moments like these are routine, but their impact extends far beyond the range. These small, Read More …
A team of CMAC experts found two aerial bombs weighing 230 kg in a cashew plantation and at the bottom of a pit in different provinces on March 11. According to a Facebook post by Heng Ratana, Director General of Read More …
The discovery of a Second World War bomb sparked the lockdown of a street in Renfrew on Tuesday afternoon. The Royal Navy’s explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unit was called to an industrial premises on Meadowside Street at around 12.25pm. A Read More …
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Team conducted simultaneous operation across Solomon Islands. EOD Supervising Director, Senior Sergeant Peter Ririvere, said two teams were sent out to Munda and Shortland Islands in Western Province and Read More …
West Bengal’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is all set to procure two Total Containment Vessel (TCV) on trailer for its Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) units of Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport (Durgapur) and Cooch Behar Airport in the state. Read More …
FORT JOHNSON, La. – U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians recently trained together to confront and defeat explosive drones. Army EOD technicians from the Fort Johnson, Louisiana-based 705th Ordnance Company (EOD) and EOD Airmen from the Read More …
The debris of an ATACMS missile has been found in a forest area in the town of Seltso in the Bryansk Region. It has been neutralized by bomb disposal specialists from the National Guard (Rosgvardia) and Defense Ministry. “The debris Read More …
MAG (Mines Advisory Group), the global landmine charity, is to receive a new grant of 10 million Canadian dollars (or £5.5m) to support its work in Ukraine until April 2026. The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced a series of Read More …
About 30 U.S. and Thai troops braced themselves Sunday as more than 730 pounds of TNT and nearly 20 pounds of C4 detonated just over half a mile away. Hunkered inside a reinforced shelter, they listened in silence for 30 Read More …
A second unexploded World War II (WW2) bomb was detonated by the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) near Lok Kawi Plastic Industries, at 3pm, Sunday. District Police Chief Supt Kamaruddin Ambo Sakka said the five-hour operation involving various agencies started at Read More …
Specialized KFOR units from Finland, which deal with the identification, removal and destruction of explosive devices, had an exercise at the Bondsteel NATO base near Uroševac. Finnish EOD soldiers, assigned to the East Regional Command of the KFOR mission, recently Read More …
The army bomb disposal unit was called to Shannon on Saturday evening after a suspected grenade was found in a car. A garda spokesperson confirmed gardaí attended following the discovery of a suspect device in a vehicle at Sli an Read More …
F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. — Before the sun crests the hill and the billowing of wind begins in earnest, members of the 90th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Demolition team begin to stir and ready themselves for the Read More …