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The Juneau Police Department and Alaska State Capitol Security along with Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians are conducting a scheduled vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) drill outside the capitol building from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m Thursday. Police say Read More …
The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) on Monday said its team in the central province of Quảng Bình has deactivated a nearly-230-kg wartime bomb found right next to the Đồng Hới City market, which houses hundreds of small businesses and sees Read More …
After setting up 475 meters a safety perimeter and evacuating local residents, the EOD technicians of 21st Engineer Regiment of the Bersaglieri Garibaldi Brigade have safely defused the 200-pound Second World War bomb in Sapri, Campania. The soldiers were assisted Read More …
A homemade bomb was found near a suspicious car fire Thursday in Tacoma, police said. A bomb squad responded and rendered the explosive device safe. No one was injured in the fire, which burned a Chevy SUV and a Chevy Read More …
Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol Bomb Squad, assisted by an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from the Nebraska Air National Guard’s 155th Air Refueling Wing, have safely destroyed three old military ordnances located in personal property recently. Last Thursday, February Read More …
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland – The U.S. Army is marking the 80th anniversary of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal profession this year. The U.S. Army’s first enlisted EOD technicians began training at the Bomb Disposal School on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, Read More …
Colombian Army in coordination with the National Police managed to locate and destroy two cylinder-type explosive devices found fifteen meters from a house located in the San Jorge neighborhood, in the municipality of Saravena, Arauca. The EOD techs from Equipo Read More …
The Quezon City government through its veterinary bureau has begun training rescued stray dogs to become community service and bomb-sniffing dogs, Mayor Maria Josefina “Joy” Belmonte said on Tuesday. She said the rescued animals will undergo comprehensive assessment, as well Read More …
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 …
Government troops have prevented a roadside bombing as they safely defused an improvised explosive device (IED) in the province of Sulu, military officials announced Monday. Lt. Col. Domingo Robles Jr., 35th Infantry Battalion commander, said the IED was disarmed around 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 …