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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS) — Two Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center units won Gears of Government awards recently for delivering mission results, customer service and accountable stewardship. The Air Force Category Management Program, part of the Air Read More …
Voting was interrupted for about three hours Tuesday when a pipe bomb was found outside an Iowa polling location, officials said. A couple walking their dog found the device just before 9:30 a.m. outside Lakeside Center, a multipurpose building in Read More …
Bomb disposal units have been repeatedly called out to the Essex coast after several suspected ordnances were found. Between February 27 and March 1, HM Coastguard in Southend-on-Sea were called to areas along the coastline after several devices, believed to Read More …
Bomb disposal experts detonated an old mortar shell after a gardener found the explosive inside a detached house on 11 Big Wave Bay Road in Shek O. The force said officers were alerted to a 3-inch long metal shell around Read More …
Authorities on Tuesday found a pipe bomb and a loaded homemade gun near the front office of Baker Elementary School in south Sacramento, sheriff’s officials said. The pipe bomb and the homemade gun, also known as a “zip gun,” were Read More …
Properties in Exeter are being assessed for structural damage after the controlled detonation of a World War Two bomb. A structural engineer said doors and windows of nearby houses had been “blown through” by the blast. Hundreds of people evacuated Read More …
A 230 kilogramme bomb was discovered in Tamouk Lake at the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Friday, believed to have been buried there for about 50 years. Head of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) Heng Ratana identified it as Read More …
Three objects, all of them suspected to be explosives left behind, possibly after wartime conflicts, have been destroyed by bomb disposal experts in a single operation on an Isle of Wight Beach. Members of The Needles Coastguard Rescue team said Read More …
A suspected second world war bomb discovered in Exeter will be detonated, police have confirmed. Thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the city while authorities investigated the device, according to police. A 400-metre (1,300-ft) cordon was in Read More …
An abandoned vehicle with explosive material was found near business tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s house in Mumbai on Thursday, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said, in a bomb scare just metres away from where India’s richest man lives under high security. Read More …
Afghan National Police bomb disposal unit discovered & neutralized 6 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Kandahar, Nimruz & Logar. Meanwhile, 2 Taliban terrorists expert of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) making were killed by their own bomb blast in PD#12, Kandahar Read More …
Cambodia had seen a remarkable drop in the number of casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) in the last 24 years, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said. In a message to mark the National Mine Awareness Read More …
Afghan National Army discovered and defused 20 IEDs which were placed by Taliban on public roads in Nahr-Saraj district of Helmand province. Lives of tens of civilians were saved as a result. #ANA discovered and defused 20 IEDs which were Read More …
In a major breakthrough, 21 improvised explosive devices (IED) were recovered near Goilkera in a joint operation by Jharkhand Police, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Jharkhand Jaguar unit on Friday. “21 IEDs, weighing 5kg each were recovered near a Read More …
A 23-year-old woman is facing numerous charges in connection with an incident involving explosives near the Liberty Village area earlier this week. Toronto police responded to an apartment building near Wellington Street West and Strachan Avenue just after 11:30 a.m. Read More …
Military personnel defused on Thursday morning an improvised explosive device (IED) found in Barangay Satan, Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao. “Around 10:00 a.m. yesterday, a concerned citizen informed the troops of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion that a suspected IED was emplaced Read More …
A massive crater has been left on Newsome High School’s playing fields after the army carried out a controlled explosion there today (Thursday). YorkshireLive understands a ‘volatile chemical’, which needed disposing of, was found in a cupboard at the University Read More …
2 IEDs which were placed by Taliban on public roads and under a bridge in PD 19 of Kabul province were discovered and safely detonated by ANA. Lives of tens of civilians were saved as a result. 2 #IEDs which Read More …
ANP bomb disposal unit discovered and defused 11 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Kabul, Kunar, Kandahar and Logar provinces. ANP bomb disposal unit discovered and defused 11 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Kabul, Kunar, Kandahar and Logar provinces. pic.twitter.com/EuvgF2faJ1 — Read More …
Two Explosive Sniffing Dogs, named Minki and Mukti, trained to sniff out explosives, were slithered down from a naval helicopter onto the offshore oil platform Neelam as part of a simulated bomb threat during the recently concluded Exercise Prasthan and Read More …