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Police have carried out two controlled explosions in Westminster following reports of a suspicious vehicle. Earlier, officers set up a cordon and closed roads near Parliament Square. The Queen Elizabeth II Centre and Westminster School were evacuated and Westminster underground Read More …
Police thwarted a possible terror attack and arrested two bike-borne men with an improvised explosive device (IED) packed with around 1.5kg of RDX following a tip-off at Naushehra Pannuan village in Tarn Taran district on Sunday. The IED, packed in Read More …
Berlin criminal investigators and prosecutors were on Saturday studying a device found and destroyed at a residential building housing Russian news agency staff in the city’s Steglitz district, Berlin authorities said. The device was found on Friday and investigators were Read More …
A Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC)’s bomb expert team on Thursday safely removed a war-left unexploded AN-M66 aerial bomb from the Chaktomuk River in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, a mine clearance chief said. CMAC’s director-general Heng Ratana said the Read More …
Wiltshire Police have provided an update after the bomb squad were called to a property in Corsham as the force probes a firearms incident. Officers are understood to have arrested a man at a house in Dicketts Road after a Read More …
In a big breakthrough, Karnal district police arrested four terror suspects near Bastara toll plaza on Thursday. The suspects were arrested with weapons, ammunition and IEDs. Following the arrests, the Punjab Police on Thursday released a statement mentioning the weaponry Read More …
FORT CARSON, Colorado – A Soldier from the Fort Carson, Colorado-based 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) developed a rapid deployment command and control system that reduces the time required to deploy to hotspots around the world. Cpl. Kobie R. Read More …
The bomb squad was called to a Bolton suburb after police discovered a ‘viable device’ following a ‘small explosion’. Greater Manchester Police were called to reports of the explosion on Longcauseway, in Farnworth, just after 10pm on Sunday 1 May. Read More …
K9s Dixie, Kevin, Tango and Zambra have a new colleague at the Cambridge Police Department. Meet K9 Tony! Look for K9 Tony out in the community with Officer Bikofsky, his partner and handler. The two have secured multiple certifications together, Read More …
“Destroy and do not stop”, – Metropolitan EOD technician Igor Wojciechowski on the seizure of enemy ammunition. Law enforcement officers continue painstaking work eliminating explosive objects using controlled explosions to neutralize them. After all, no undetonated projectile should harm civilians. Read More …
Multiple law enforcement agencies are on the scene after an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in a car after a police chase Thursday morning. Bixby police got into a pursuit that started near 126th and Memorial and ended near Read More …
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal noncommissioned officers have defeated dangerous explosive devices and molded EOD teams since the Army EOD profession began more than 80 years ago at the Bomb Disposal School on Aberdeen Proving Read More …
The time for humanitarian demining of the area around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) will be measured in months, Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky has said. According to the Minister of Internal Affairs, the examination of the territory around the Read More …
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) of the Royal Solomon Island Police Force (RSIPF) met with the Japan Honourable Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Uesugi Kentaro and the Japanese delegation upon their visit to Hells Point yesterday. Speaking at the Read More …
Over 20 hours after a bomb was recovered outside the Model Jail in Sector 51, a team of the National Security Guard (NSG) safely defused it on Sunday afternoon. A bag containing the explosive device, box, detonator and some burnt Read More …
A man has described how his dog dug up a grenade on a Norfolk beach and “tossed it around like a tennis ball”. Steve Rose was out walking his springer spaniel Luna on the dunes at Winterton on Sunday (April Read More …
Servicemen of the engineering troops of the Russian Armed Forces conduct mine clearance in populated areas in Kharkov region. Engineering reconnaissance is carried out on site, the situation is assessed, and then the demining team proceeds to clear the area Read More …
On April 23, Ukrainian pyrotechnic workers have neutralized 1,471 explosive objects, including three aviation bombs. The State Emergency Service said this a Facebook post, Ukrinform reports. “Pyrotechnic units of the State Emergency Service were called out 123 times over the Read More …
A Manx bomb disposal specialist has been using his experience to help train troops fighting in Ukraine. Chris Garrett, from Peel on the Isle of Man, is volunteering and working with the Ukrainian National Guard. He previously helped in the Read More …
A huge blast echoed across Rochdale town centre this morning as the bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on a ‘suspicious device’. A heavy emergency services response was sparked after the item was discovered at around 3am. A large Read More …