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Two women sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED), suspected to be planted by Maoists, detonated in Sukma district of on Sunday morning, police said. Sukma superintendent of police, Kiran G Chavan said that the incident took place in Read More …
Nooruddin Rustamkhil, head of Coordination, Cooperation, and Mine Clearance, stated that since the beginning of 2024, “nearly 50 people have been killed and more than 150 injured” due to landmines and other explosive materials. Rustamkhil told TOLOnews that “over 100 Read More …
A car explosion has killed one person in Syria’s capital Damascus, Syrian news agency SANA reported, without identifying the victim. The Mezze neighbourhood of Damascus houses the Iranian consulate, destroyed last month in a strike blamed on Israel. The attack Read More …
Landmines laid by Houthi forces and others in Yemen continue to kill and cause serious injuries to civilians in areas where active hostilities have ceased and are preventing farmers from accessing their land, Human Rights Watch said today. Yemeni law Read More …
Violence intensified in southwestern Colombia on Monday when a bomb blast injured six people in the city of Jamundi and an attack by insurgents on a police station in the rural town of Morales left at least two officers dead, Read More …
Sources in Kandahar province, which had previously confirmed explosions in the province, say that this explosion also resulted in casualties. According to a source, on Monday, May 20, an explosion occurred at the ‘Kabul Station’ in the central district of Read More …
One civilian died as a result of a landmine explosion in Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, reads a joint statement from the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAM). On May 21, Arzu Hajiyev (born in Read More …
Eight defence volunteers were injured in two improvised explosive device (IED) explosions in Sukhirin and Cho-airong districts of the southern province of Narathiwat this morning. In the first incident, volunteers were on a routine foot patrol along a village road Read More …
An arson attack was behind the fire in the German city of Dusseldorf that killed a Turkish citizen among others last week, with the motive behind the incident remaining unclear, German prosecutors have unveiled. Last week’s fire and explosion, which Read More …
As violence continues to escalate in the Sahel region of Africa, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM) has been intensifying its campaign of terror, particularly in the Central Sahel, which comprises Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Niger Republic. Newly released Read More …
Three Afghan nationals and three Spanish tourists were killed in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, the Taliban government has said, as it raised the death toll from the attack in a market. On Saturday, the government said that the bodies of Read More …
A gang of armed bandits, who identified themselves as ‘Ijaw Freedom Fighters’, on Sunday night attacked Imariogha community, near Okomu Oil Palm Plantation in Edo State, setting ablaze over eight vehicles. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the bandits Read More …
Two children were killed when an explosive device they found in a forest area in their village in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-affected Bijapur district on Monday went off after one of them hit it with a stone without knowing that it was Read More …
A man died on Sunday after an unexploded ordnance (UXO), identified as a DK75 mortar shell, exploded while he attempted to dismantle it with an axe to sell as scrap metal. The incident occurred in Trang village, Phnom Dei commune Read More …
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said three of its fighters fell as martyrs and others were wounded as the result of an attack by an Islamic State suicide bomber. The attack happened in the town of Al-Shahil, Deir ez-Zor’s eastern Read More …
A 25-year-old woman was killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Naxalites went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday, the police said. Shanti Punem was collecting tendu leaves near Mallur village within the limits of the Gangaloor Read More …
The 2024 Ottawa Convention Conference chair Ly Thuch has endorsed Ukraine’s participation in the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free World in November, amid allegations of the Ukrainian military’s use of banned antipersonnel mines. This support is in response to Read More …
Two Malaysian women were among four individuals injured in a bomb blast in the city of Narathiwat last night (May 6). The Consul General of Malaysia in Songkhla Ahmad Fahmi Ahmad Sarkawi said both the women from Tumpat, Kelantan suffered Read More …
At least 12 people, including children, have been killed in twin bomb blasts that hit two camps for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to government officials, the United Nations and an aid group. Friday’s explosions Read More …
The main bridge linking the Russian mainland to annexed Crimea was blown up in October 2022 using an improvised explosive device with a power equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, a Russian newspaper has reported. “The group members, at an Read More …