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Bomb disposal experts scrambled to the scene of an attempted robbery in Sale after police believe suspects used an ‘explosive device’ to target a cash machine. The incident happened on Hereford Street at around 2.50am on Monday 20 November. Police, Read More …
Columbus police are investigating the discovery of a improvised explosive device, or pipe bomb, in a vehicle near the area of 13th Street and Pearl Street at about noon today. The city police department Explosive Ordinance Team, or bomb squad, Read More …
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested over 300 people from different areas, including Dhaka, in connection with the violence and sabotage activities during the BNP’s grand rally on October 28. RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Commander Khondoker Al Moyeen Read More …
Last summer, two male suspects entered a Saanich bank clad in full body armor and armed with semi-automatic SKS rifles. When officers arrived on scene, there was an armed robbery in progress and 22 innocent people were inside the bank. Read More …
An explosion occurred outside a shop in the Makedonitissa area of Nicosia in the early hours of Friday morning. Police said the explosion occurred at around 2:30am and caused damage to the shop front as well as causing a fire Read More …
A 27-year-old Sussex man whose hand was significantly hurt in an explosives incident in Sussex now faces allegations he had materials in and around his home and car to make improvised explosive devices. Kody Kirkland was charged on Thursday in Read More …
An explosion outside the Benson Police Department led to a man’s arrest. The department says the explosion happened just after 2 p.m. on Nov. 7 just outside the front of the building. Investigators say a bottle with smoke coming from it Read More …
Evansville Police say they had to vacate a home while serving a warrant because they found an IED. It happened early Wednesday morning at an apartment in the 1000 block of Mary Street. Police say they made contact with the Read More …
In late October, 50 kilogrammes of dynamite were stolen from a construction site near the Isohaara power plant in Kemi, southwest Lapland. The theft of explosives is relatively rare in Finland. However, no exact figures on this type of crime Read More …
Homes were evacuated after two grenades were found at a house following an arson attack. Two men, dressed in black, broke into a house before setting fire to it on Parkview Road, Croxteth, Liverpool at about 22:40 GMT on Sunday, Read More …
Eight police officers have been injured in what police described as organised Bonfire Night clashes in Scotland. The most serious disorder took place in the Niddrie area of Edinburgh, where a group of 50 youths threw fireworks and petrol bombs Read More …
Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan plunged by an estimated 95 per cent following a drug ban imposed by the de facto authorities in April 2022, according to a new research brief from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Read More …
The threat of acquiring, producing and disseminating radiological and nuclear hazardous materials for deliberate use has substantially increased over the past ten years. The lack of experience and awareness among law enforcement and judicial authorities, as well as prosecutorial and Read More …
A man has been arrested for allegedly knocking a parishioner unconscious inside a San Francisco Catholic church and throwing pipe bombs at a patrol car during a car chase, authorities said Monday. The 42-year-old Concord man was arrested Sunday by Read More …
Gardaí arrested five men and seized drugs worth over €70,000 in an operation targeting organised crime in Co Limerick on Tuesday. A number of searches were conducted by gardaí attached to Limerick crime functional area at locations in Limerick, Cork Read More …
Mexican drug cartel operatives continue to engage in violent acts along the southern border of Texas near the Rio Grande, as new video shows them throwing explosives as an intimidation tactic, authorities say. The Texas Department of Public Safety posted Read More …
A man was arrested on Wednesday (Oct 25) from India’s southern Chennai city after he hurled a crude bomb outside the Tamil Nadu state governor’s residence. Police said that upon reaching the main gate the alleged perpetrator pulled out a Read More …
Suspected insurgents launched a series of coordinated attacks in Tak Bai district of this southern border province in the early hours of Saturday, police said. An improvised explosive device (IED), assembled inside a fire extinguisher cylinder, was detonated outside a Read More …
A man in California was arrested after he was allegedly caught on surveillance video placing a fluffy teddy bear, filled with explosives, in a parking lot and detonating it. The San Bernardino Police Department said officers responded to a possible explosive Read More …
A woman in her 20s was inside the home in Heron Way when the device partially exploded at the backdoor at around 11.30pm. She wasn’t injured however damage was caused to the door. A number of nearby homes were evacuated Read More …