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The mobile mine clearance team of Quang Tri Province under the Peace Trees Vietnam organization, on November 7, said that it had safely moved the MK-82 bomb discovered on National Highway 15D to the gathering place to proceed with the Read More …
Authorities in Normandy have appealed for residents to exercise extreme caution – and some common sense – if they come across World War Two explosives, after a man drove to his local police station with two shells on the back Read More …
It will take at least 10 years to demine the entire occupied part of Luhansk Oblast. Serhii Haidai, Head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration on air during the national joint 24/7 newscast “It will take at least 10 years Read More …
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) is set to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the start of efforts to demine Cambodia, which began in earnest in 1992. The events planned are set to take place over November Read More …
The Jabrayil District Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan received information on a landmine explosion in liberated Jabrayil, the Office told Trend. According to the preliminary investigation, driver of Azerbaijan’s construction company Ilgar Ahmadov was severely injured after hitting an anti-personnel landmine Read More …
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky agreed with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on cooperation. Our sappers will be trained by colleagues from the mentioned Asian country. According to The Washington Post, Zelensky held a telephone conversation with Hun Sen. As Read More …
Two children died Sunday morning after an explosive went off while they were herding goats at Iresuki village in Mandera County. Confirming the incident, Mandera CIO Benedict Kigen said the warhead, suspected to have been launched from a rocket-propelled grenade Read More …
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has pledged to mobilise support from around 700 of its member companies for demining work in Cambodia, with a fund-raising event scheduled for November 17. The pledge came at a meeting between Ly Read More …
Two Iraqi UN employees were killed and a third person injured in an accident on Monday near the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The staff members were part of a team working for the UN’s Mine Action Service (Unmas) at Read More …
Two children were killed and two others injured after an unexploded mortar shell exploded in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, said local Taliban officials. A mortar shell struck the Zazi district of Paktia province on Saturday, October 22, killing Read More …
The Federal Government has disclosed that 755 civilians have been killed and 1,321 injured by the remnants of Explosive Ordnance (EO) in the Northeast in the last six years. The Federal Government also said the figure indicates that at least Read More …
Owner of the Military Museum in Collon William Sullivan is used to people offering him war memorabilia, but he got the shock of his life on Friday when he thought a live shell was left at his door! The drama Read More …
TEDAX-NRBQ technicians assisted the Provincial Police of Teruel officers and defused five military devices in different rural locations in Teruel. In the hamlet of Caudé, the EOD team located and rendered safe a mortar round, 146mm and 105mm artillery shells. Read More …
The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Thomas Fitschen signed an agreement yesterday with the local non-governmental organization “Mine Detection Dog Center” (MDDC) on the provision of funds in the amount of 95,000 euros Read More …
The 500-kilogram unexploded ordnance from the Second World War is to be defused on Wednesday (12 October). On the Twitter channel of the Frankfurt fire brigade, Alexander Majunke of the explosive ordnance clearance service recently stated that it was not Read More …
The local police said that the device was found during construction work in the city and added that “the bomb disposal team specialists have examined the bomb, of American manufacture, and have determined that the detonator is significantly deformed”. Thus, Read More …
Senior Minister Ly Thuch, First Vice President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), announced that 70 percent of the mine clearance work in Tboung Khmum. On October 5, Senior Minister Thuch, inspected the demining activities in Read More …
According to information, on Tuesday (4/10), a Hellenic Army’s Land Mine Clearance Department (TENX) team unearthed more German World War II shells from the construction site. The total number of shells found was 69. As sources with knowledge of the Read More …
A car and four dead bodies in it have been found in Chernihiv Oblast; the vehicle probably drove on a landmine. Source: Viacheslav Chaus, head of Chernihiv blast Military dminsitration; Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the Office of President of Read More …
An unexploded World War 2 bomb has been found in East Renfrewshire, prompting the closure of a railway line. Police were called to a Taylor Wimpey construction site on Springfield Road, Barrhead – where new houses are being built – Read More …