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A controlled explosion has been carried out after an suspected explosive device was found at a garage off the A19 north of Billingham, police have confirmed. The main route was closed for several hours and motorists were caught up in Read More …
The scale of the bombs dropped on Gaza since 7 October means that it will take millions of dollars, and many years, to decontaminate the Strip from unexploded munitions, the head of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Palestine Read More …
Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency sapper Aliyev Khayyam Gambar oglu born 1987 was blown up by a mine, the Aghdam district prosecutor’s office reported. The incident occurred on April 2 during mine clearance work in the village of Saryjaly, Agdam region. Read More …
An old unexploded hand grenade discovered in the river in Bedford has now been safely detonated by experts. The device was reported to police at around 1.30pm on Sunday and a cordon was put in place around Riverside Square. Read Read More …
In the Fall 2023, SharpLogixx, LLC, the manufacturer of SmartRayVision, released their latest SRV custom EOD software with new AI enhanced Image Processing. This new technology takes the SRV images from outstanding to extreme fidelity. What you now get with Read More …
A State Emergency Service bomb disposal team has seized and destroyed an OFAB-250 aerial bomb in Kharkiv Oblast. “Yesterday, after the latest attack by the Russian army on the border village of Ruska Lozova, an enemy OFAB-250 high-explosive fragmentation aerial Read More …
Roscoe, a robotic dog, is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home. The robot dog was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March Read More …
Despite the terrorist attacks of Russia, the state is taking all measures to ensure the speedy humanitarian demining of agricultural land and food security of the country, the Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy informs. Thus, according to the Kherson Read More …
The discovery this week of an inert piece of training ordnance left behind from a recent exercise caused Misawa Air Base, Japan, to shut its gates momentarily. The fighter base in northeastern Japan closed its gates at 2:25 p.m. Monday Read More …
Gardaí discovered four viable explosive devices during the search of a van in southwest Dublin on Sunday. A man in his 40s was arrested following the search in Ronanstown, Dublin 22. He remains in Garda custody in Dublin, detained under Read More …
Ukraine’s Minister of Economy, Yulia Svyrydenko, announced that 33 demining operators have already been certified, and the number of mine action developments is increasing. According to her, “over 50 more are in line,” Rubryka reports. “The more operators we have, Read More …
A controlled explosion was carried out on Cleethorpes beach, after marine flares and black powder were found. The blast was carried out safely on Cleethorpes beach after the items were handed to police. Cleethorpes Coastguard was called in to help Humberside Read More …
On 21 March 2024, following a report from Territorial Army regarding a suspicious bag south of Saigon Village, Tengnoupal District, a joint team comprising Assam Rifles along with Territorial Army was deployed for search operations. During the search, the team Read More …
A Counter Improvised Explosive Devices and Explosive Ordinance Disposal Center has been inaugurated at the Nigerian Army School of Military Engineering, NASME, in Makurdi. The German Ambassador to Nigeria, Annett Gunther, said on Thursday when she visited Governor Hyacinth Alia Read More …
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will not provide financial support to residents whose properties were damaged during the removal of a World War Two bomb, an MP has said. In February, several Plymouth properties were damaged when the device was Read More …
A controlled explosion was carried out on Medmerry Beach, Selsey, near Chichester on Sunday (March 17) after the Coastguard Rescue Team was called to reports of suspected ordnance. “The team located several pieces of ordnance, photos were taken and sent Read More …
A Nottinghamshire jail was placed in lockdown for hours when one of the prisoners placed a hoax improvised bomb in the exercise yard of its segregation unit. Nottingham Crown Court heard how convicted arsonist Mathew Lea left the plastic bottle Read More …
The device, thought to be an unexploded mortar round, was safely detonated in a field near Ilkeston. Police were called to the Langley Avenue area in Cotmanhay at about 6.40pm yesterday (Sunday) after a member of the public found the Read More …
A Russian Kh-101 missile’s unexploded warhead was destroyed by a pyrotechnical, underwater and humanitarian demining unit in Vinnytsia Oblast, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service (SES) reported on March 16. The missile fragments were discovered by local residents in the forest Read More …
An active improvised explosive device (IED) was found in Parker on Thursday evening and a suspect was booked on multiple charges, police said. On Thursday evening, the Parker Police Department posted on social media that it was investigating a suspicious Read More …