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CHAMBERSBURG, Pennsylvania – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers destroyed more than 250 Civil War-era cannon balls during a domestic explosive mitigation mission on Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. EOD technicians from the Fort Belvoir, Virginia-based 55th Ordnance Company Read More …
Ukrainian forces worked to remove an unexploded missile on Friday from a residential area in the country’s northeast following a Russian attack. The images, from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent Maryan Kushnir, show an unexploded piece of ordinance in Read More …
Before members of the LAPD bomb squad destroyed part of a South L.A. neighborhood by exploding a stash of illegal fireworks last summer, they repeatedly ignored warnings from one of their most experienced technicians that the plan was not safe, Read More …
Following a recent spate of torrential rains and landslides, residents in O’Snguot village, Bor Yakha commune in Pailin city were surprised when they stumbled onto unexploded ordnances sticking out from the ground in a plot of land on Wednesday. Sam Read More …
Police successfully detonated a homemade bomb found outside a middle school in Sherwood, Oregon, on Wednesday night, according to Sherwood School District. At approximately 6:11 p.m., a “suspicious item” was found by a civilian on the athletic field outside Sherwood Read More …
KUNSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea — Tech. Sgt. Ryan Faulk, 8th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department Assistant Chief of Operations, and Airman First Class Matthew Maier, 8th CES Fire Department Firefighter, walk to establish decontamination zones during routine training Read More …
A Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) team was deployed to a work site here on Feb. 21 to defuse and remove a suspected U.S. bomb from World War II. The Usa city government cordoned off an area within a radius Read More …
Over 200 artillery shells were found stuffed in several unattended sacks in Manglore’s forest area in Ambala on Friday. Superintendent of police Jashandeep Singh Randhawa informed that they got information of some suspicious bomb-like objects in the Manglore forest area Read More …
The Rescue Board (Päästeamet) closed off the residential district of Kakumäe, just west of Tallinn, on Monday, in order to defuse an unexploded wartime aerial bomb found there the day before. “Defusing work is taking place on the Kakumäe shore Read More …
he UK’s top police bomb disposal expert says ITV’s Trigger Point is “a wonderful drama” but doesn’t tell the real story of his job. Matthew Middleditch MBE, Scotland Yard’s senior explosives officer, added he is thankful to Jed Mercurio’s six-part Read More …
Cambodia on Sunday dispatched the eighth batch of 219 peacekeepers, including 28 women, to join a United Nations peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic (CAR). Speaking at the departure ceremony held at the Phnom Penh International Airport, Gen. Sem Read More …
A bomb disposal squad defused a bomb in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber district on Friday. Residents of the Ghundi area informed the authorities that a suspicious pressure cooker pot was lying in a dry canal. The squad personnel rushed to Read More …
A major terror bid has been foiled by the timely action of the law enforcement agencies in Quetta as they defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a vehicle parked at Balochistan University, ARY News reported on Thursday. The Read More …
CMAC deminers today removed an unexploded bomb, dropped by American warplanes during the civil war era, weighing more than 200 kilogrammes and which was buried underground for nearly 50 years in Kampong Chhnang province’s Kampong Tralach district. District police Deputy Read More …
FORT IRWIN, California – A team of U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians cleared 723 rounds from a U.S. Air Force training range in California’s Mojave Desert. Three EOD Soldiers from the Fort Irwin, California-based 759th Ordnance Company (EOD) disposed Read More …
During exploratory work in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg on Rotenhäuser Damm, workers came across a 500-kilogram (1,000 lbs) unexploded Second World War bomb. The unexploded ordnance was discovered under water at a depth of ten meters. After establishing a safety zone and evacuating Read More …
Bellingham Police are investigating after an improvised explosive device was found near Sehome High School and WWU. Lt. Claudia Murphy says a maintenance worker found the device on the 3000 block of Ferry Avenue on Sunday, February 13th, around noon. Read More …
A police station was closed after a hand grenade was handed in by a member of the public. Bomb disposal experts were sent to the site in Hereford to assess the device and ensure its safe disposal, the West Mercia Read More …
The dummy device, constructed by 2 Dstl apprentices, will support educational outreach activity at the recently-opened museum at Worthy Down near Winchester. The Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) incorporates the Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal regiments whose bomb disposal experts are called Read More …
Ordnance experts on Thursday destroyed a home-made bomb found on the premises of the office of a power utility cooperative. The improvised explosive device left in the compound of the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (Magelco) in Barangay Upper Capiton was fashioned Read More …