Rome: IED Discovered, Destroyed In Front of Stadio Olimpico Ahead of 2020 Euro Game

The homemade bomb was allegedly reported as a suspicious-looking package on a car in the Prati area, just a couple of miles from the stadium. According to Italian news outlet Il Messaggero, it was a “machine with some suspicious threads” Read More …

Northern Ireland: Explosive device made safe in Portadown

An explosive device has been made safe during a security alert in Portadown. Police say it was discovered yesterday afternoon in the Glanroy Avenue area of the town. The device was defused by army bomb disposal experts and taken for Read More …

Norwegian People’s Aid conducts explosives training in Vietnam

Norwegian People’s Aid Vietnam is for the first time conducting an intensive course on International Mine Action Standards Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Level 3 in the central Quang Tri Province of Vietnam, the Norwegian Embassy in Hanoi shared in a Read More …

Philippines: Jack Russel Terrier puppies to train on bomb detection

The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) Explosive and Ordnance Division (EOD) and K-9 Unit recently received two male puppies it would be raising and training to become Explosive Detection Dogs (EDD). Mayor Jerry Treñas said the Jack Russel Terrier puppies Read More …

Army National Guard members to deploy for Kuwait mission

Twenty-three New York Army National Guard Soldiers will depart the Glenville Armed Forces Reserve Center for a deployment to Kuwait Thursday morning. Members of the 501st Ordnance Battalion are trained to provide mission command, and supervision of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Read More …

104th Explosive Ordnance Disposal team trains for joint response

Explosive ordnance disposal technicians from the 104th Civil Engineering Squadron attended Raven’s Challenge Interoperability Exercise June 6-11, 2021, at Fort Devens Army Base, Devens, Massachusetts. Raven’s Challenge is an annual, interagency, counter improvised explosive device exercise, funded by the Department Read More …

UN condemns ‘horrendous attack’ on demining partner HALO Trust in Afghanistan

Ten people were killed, and 16 others injured, when gunmen burst into a demining camp in Baghlan-e-Markazi district and opened fire. HALO Trust said the attack occurred around 9:50 pm Tuesday, local time, when some 110 men, from local communities Read More …

Afghanistan: 10 Deminers Killed in Gunmen Attack in Baghlan

At least 10 deminers from the HALO Trust organization were killed and 16 more were wounded in an attack by gunmen on their office in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday night, a security official who wished not to Read More …

Kenya: Experts detonate unexploded mortar bomb in Samburu

Bomb experts on Sunday detonated an unexploded mortar bomb in Shabaa, Samburu County, following its discovery by residents the previous day. Herders alerted local administrators after coming across the device on Saturday morning. Samburu Central Police Commander Abdikadir Malicha said Read More …

Afghan National Police discovered and defused IEDs in Kabul, Faryab, Nimruz and Ghazni provinces

The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse four IEDs in Kabul and Faryab provinces. The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse four IEDs in Kabul and Read More …

Suspected IED Detected, Defused in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar

Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar on Saturday detected and later defused a suspected improvised explosive device (IED), police said. A suspicious IED planted in a steel container weighing approximately 10 kg was detected near the government quarters in Read More …

Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 hosted III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan—Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 hosted members of the III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, conducting training to familiarize themselves with the P-8A Poseidon’s weapons systems and aircraft hazards, June 4. The training consisted Read More …

British military train Somali Army in Baidoa

The 3 training programmes offered by the UK government in Baidoa are aimed at delivering effective operations and promoting long-term stability. The British military in Somalia, deployed on operation TANGHAM, has been running several new training programmes for the Somali Read More …

142nd Civil Engineers get valuable training in Hawaii

The 142nd Civil Engineer Squadron’s fire fighters and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians recently completed two weeks of annual training at various locations on the island of Oahu, Hawaii this May. Many of our civil engineers came to the island Read More …

Nigeria: CP Odumosu deploys EOD personnel, others to Lagos markets

Lagos State Police Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu has deplored personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD unit to markets dominated by Igbo traders in the state , with a view to detecting and detonating any combustive substance that could be Read More …