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A state investigation has found that the deaths of three Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in a grenade explosion last year involved “willful” and serious safety violations in the department, including failure to provide effective training and leaving explosives unattended. Read More …
The 16-year-old from Blackpool was earlier arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act, but has now been detained under the Mental Health Act following a further assessment. It comes after police found a quantity of items of concern Read More …
Multiple sites across the UK for new factories to make munitions and military explosives to boost the UK’s warfighting readiness have been identified as the government moves to the next phase of building the factories of the future. In a Read More …
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board will investigate the explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems near Bucksnort that killed 16 people. “This is one of the deadliest industrial incidents in our country in years,” said Steve Owens, the chairperson Read More …
Firefighters and the Columbiana County Sheriff’s Office responded to a house explosion in Columbiana County Monday night. Deputies and firefighters responded to the 48200 block of Carmel Achor Road in Middleton Township around 7:30 p.m. Monday for a report of Read More …
The detection and characterization of post-blast residues is critical for forensic attribution, explosive safety assessments, and environmental monitoring. In this study, five high explosives, HMX, TNT, Composition B, HNS, and PETN, were detonated under controlled chamber conditions and analyzed in Read More …
Nineteen people are dead or missing after a massive blast obliterated a building at a Tennessee explosives facility on Friday, authorities said — a “mass detonation” so significant that it rattled homes miles away. The early-morning explosion at Accurate Energetic Read More …
To better characterize components in explosive devices, Dutch researchers, led by University of Amsterdam personnel, tested a new two-dimensional liquid chromatography (2D-LC)-based method of analyzing explosive traces. Their research was published in the Journal of Chromatography A. As global terrorist Read More …
German authorities say at least 19 people were injured, four seriously, after a fireworks show went awry at a fair in the western city of Düsseldorf. Fire squad and emergency services deployed after the incident late Friday at the Rheinkirmes Read More …
Seven people are “unaccounted for” after several explosions at a fireworks warehouse resulted in a fire in Northern California’s Yolo County, officials said. It happened Tuesday evening in the community of Esparto at Devastating Pyrotechnics. The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office Read More …
Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says that a “large, homemade firecracker” temporarily shut down parts of the Falcon substation on Sunday. According to CSPD, at approximately 11:30 a.m. on June 29, 2025, a man came into the Falcon substation at Read More …
San Jose police arrested three men and seized more than 3,300 pounds of illegal fireworks in a series of recent raids, SJPD said Friday. San Jose residents David Benito-Carbajal, 31, Juan Rocha, 52, and Javier Martinez, 26, were arrested and Read More …
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) enabled the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to deliver training on homemade explosives (HME) manufacturing for the UK and other partner nations in early 2025, at Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Read More …
Scientists have for the first time provided insight into how bomb residue transfers to the hands of suspects, which could lead to stronger evidence in court. The study, which was led by a team from King’s College London and published Read More …
The weapon generates a white-hot fireball that lasts 15 times longer than TNT’s fleeting flash Chinese researchers have successfully detonated a hydrogen-based explosive device in a controlled field test, triggering devastating chemical chain reactions without using any nuclear materials, according Read More …
The field identification of explosives is critical for crime response, requiring specialized protocols and often the support of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams to ensure safety. Handheld Raman spectrometers are widely used for this purpose due to their portability, nondestructive Read More …
An explosion rocked the premises of Poličské strojírny in eastern Czechia on Monday morning. According to emergency services, the blast occurred in a munitions warehouse, seriously injuring one person who was airlifted to a hospital in Olomouc. Eleven fire units Read More …
West Yorkshire Police executed a warrant at a property connected to Paul Bruveris in Illingworth, where they discovered chemicals, explosives and electrical materials Bruveris was arrested when police attended his home address in Dene View, Luddenfoot, in December 2023. The Read More …
Two victims of the gunpowder explosion that rocked the Talata Mafara weekly market in Zamfara State have died while receiving treatment at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto. The deceased, Muhammad Lawal Matusgi and Sani Adamu Kanarkalgo were among Read More …
Six people have been injured in an explosion at an ammunition factory owned by a subsidiary of German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall in south-eastern Spain. The blast occurred at a Rheinmetall Expal Munitions depot in Javalí Viejo, in the Murcia region, Read More …