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A man and woman have been charged with attempting to make explosives under suspicious circumstances and possessing firearms and ammunition in suspicious circumstances. The arrests and charges follow a proactive search of a house in the Holylands area of south Read More …
A man who was seriously injured in a caravan explosion in Cornwall has been arrested and is now under police guard in hospital. The explosion rocked the quiet village of Drakewalls on Sunday (May 12) with the bomb squad called Read More …
The mother and girlfriend of two Islamist terrorists have been convicted separately of failing to disclose plans for a terror attack in two different criminal trials. Girlfriend Tasnia Ahmed, 21, from Tower Hamlets in east London, failed to report her Read More …
Croatia and Ukraine have signed a memorandum on cooperation between the two countries’ mine action centers. The press service of the Main Department for Mine Action, Civil Protection and Environmental Safety of Ukraine announced this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “Croatia Read More …
A house in the Deurne district of Antwerp was the target of an attack on Monday night. An explosive device detonated outside the front door of the house in the Deurne South area. Police are investigating whether the attack, in Read More …
The Army’s ‘Bomb Squad’ has removed a viable device that was recovered in Offaly over the weekend. Gardaí and the EOD Unit were called to the scene in Castleview Park in Edenderry on Friday afternoon at around midday. The Defence Read More …
Ricky Anderson, 45 (09.08.78) of Beechwood Drive, Woodford Green appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Thursday, 9 May where he was sentenced to a total of five years in prison for firearm offences. Anderson was also given a five year Read More …
The other day, a man called the 102 special line and reported that he had found an FPV drone with an unexploded ordnance in a field in the Kherson region. In addition to the drone, the explosive experts also found Read More …
An unexploded bomb which was found on a beach has been detonated underwater. The coastguard and the Ministry of Defence were called to Seaham in County Durham after the device was found earlier. Durham Police said the bomb was safely Read More …
The 2024 Ottawa Convention Conference chair Ly Thuch has endorsed Ukraine’s participation in the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free World in November, amid allegations of the Ukrainian military’s use of banned antipersonnel mines. This support is in response to Read More …
The Grand Canal in Sallins, Co Kildare has re-opened again following the discovery of a suspicious device yesterday. Gardaí were alerted to the discovery of the device by the Grand Canal in Sallins, Co Kildare at approximately 3.30pm yesterday, Wednesday Read More …
Police investigating the discovery of “suspicious items” at a property in Barnsley have made a second arrest. Occupants of around 130 homes on Brierley Road in Grimethorpe were evacuated after items were found shortly after 07:00 BST on Wednesday. The Read More …
Governmental and non-governmental mine action operators have surveyed over 115,000 hectares of agricultural land since the beginning of the year, of which 108,000 hectares have been brought back into economic use. “Bomb disposal units inspected almost 35,000 hectares of agricultural Read More …
Two police officers from the Zhytomyr region have been wounded while clearing mines in the Kherson region. The Kherson region police announced this in a post on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. “In Bilohirka, two police officers from the Zhytomyr region were Read More …
Around 36,000 people will be evacuated from their homes in the central Italian town of Viterbo on Tuesday while army experts defuse a massive unexploded bomb left over from world war two. The long-lost bomb is one of the biggest Read More …
A Russian Kamov Ka-27 Helix helicopter destroyed a Ukrainian USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle) that was carrying an R-73 air-to-air missile. Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), also referred to as “drone boats” or “drone vessels”, have emerged as a significant threat Read More …
Bomb disposal experts from the SES’s Interregional Humanitarian Demining and Rapid Response Centre thoroughly examined the area and retrieved the warhead of a high-precision Kh-69 missile. As this is a new weapon, it took longer for the SES specialists to Read More …
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained a resident of the city of Tambov for plotting to blow up areas adjacent to the regional court and the arbitration court, the FSB said in a statement. “The FSB, working jointly with Read More …
Sections of the Miller & Carter steakhouse car park in Cannock have been shut following reports a hand grenade was found nearby. Army explosive ordnance disposal experts launched an investigation after the discovery in Lichfield Road, Cannock just before 12:30 Read More …
The main bridge linking the Russian mainland to annexed Crimea was blown up in October 2022 using an improvised explosive device with a power equivalent to 10 tons of TNT, a Russian newspaper has reported. “The group members, at an Read More …