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Three soldiers died after armed attackers used guerilla drones to target a Colombian military garrison in the Catatumbo region on Friday, the defence ministry said on Saturday. Authorities had initially reported at least two deaths and five people wounded before Read More …
An unknown object exploded near a train station in the southern city of Augsburg in the early hours of Wednesday, German police said, adding that two passers-by aged 17 and 18 sustained minor injuries. The blast occurred in a building Read More …
According to media reports, a key installation near the Jänschwalde coal plant in Brandenburg was repeatedly targeted with rockets, which emergency crews later found and defused. Several improvised explosive devices were found at a substation near a coal-fired power plant Read More …
Two people were killed and others injured on Monday when an old artillery shell exploded near Kani Maran village in Iraq’s Halabja province, police and health officials said. Halabja Police spokesperson Akam Qutb Al-Din said the shell detonated while it Read More …
A police constable was killed and six officials were injured on Monday when an improvised explosive device (IED) was used to attack a police patrol van in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak district. Karak District Police Officer’s (DPO) spokesperson Shaukat Khan said Read More …
An explosion at a district police station in Rivne on 31 August which killed one member of staff and injured three others occurred as bomb disposal experts were at work. A criminal investigation has been opened into the negligent storage Read More …
On Saturday, a home on Professor R. Casimirstraat in Amsterdam was targeted three times with explosives. Two of the attempts resulted in explosions. However, just after midnight, police prevented the third explosion by arresting a 16-year-old boy from Amsterdam. The Defense Read More …
Three brothers were killed and one of their relatives was injured in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Duki district of Balochistan on Sunday, police said. Duki Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mansoor Ahmed Buzdar Read More …
One peace committee member was killed while eight others were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in Makeen Bazaar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Upper South Waziristan district on Friday, police said. Dera Ismail Khan Regional Police Officer (RPO) Ghulam Read More …
Puyallup police were trying to arrest a domestic violence suspect after a lengthy standoff when the man detonated an explosive device, killing himself and sending four officers and a K-9 to the hospital. The 46-year-old man had forced his way Read More …
A Russian serviceman was killed by a car bomb Thursday, officials said, the latest in a string of deadly blasts targeting military personnel and others linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The man was killed and his wife was injured when Read More …
Sheikh Mandoul al-Satm, a Tribal Mobilization Forces (TMF) commander in Al-Anbar’s Haditha district, survived a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday, a security source told Shafaq News. The explosive device detonated as al-Satm’s vehicle was traveling through the Jazira desert, causing no Read More …
Scorched landscapes across Europe have exposed a potentially lethal threat lurking underground. Rusted bombs and mines from the First and Second World Wars are now endangering emergency crews responding to wildfires across the continent. High heat has caused several weapons to explode in France, Belgium, Germany and the Read More …
A tractor hit a mine in the village of Dudukchu in Azerbaijan”s Khojavand district, injuring the driver, according to a joint statement by the press services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General”s Office and the Azerbaijan Mine Read More …
Several petrol bombs have been thrown at a row of supercars outside a wedding venue in a terrifying attack in Birmingham. Three landed close to guests, including a baby, outside the Royal Shalimar venue in Sparkbrook, Birmingham. Two more landed near what Read More …
A Ukrainian man has been arrested in Croatia as part of an investigation into the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Germany and Russia. Undersea explosions in September 2022, just months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, damaged three of Read More …
A suspected drone carrying explosives crashed into the grounds of a police department in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Trabzon, damaging three parked vehicles but causing no casualties, local authorities said. The object fell into the courtyard of the Arsin District Security Read More …
Dutch police arrested a suspect Wednesday on suspicion of involvement in one or more explosions in Assen. The blasts targeted homes on Kalverstraat and Entingestraat beginning July 25. Authorities had previously confirmed a link between the incidents. Police have released Read More …
Four students of a women’s madrasa were injured in a crude bomb blast in Kalkini upazila of Madaripur this morning, police said. One of them was in critical condition and was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for better treatment. Read More …
A powerful explosion ripped through a munitions factory near the town of Colleferro, southeast of Rome, on Thursday, with the blast heard for kilometres around. The explosion occurred when firefighters and police were already at the site responding to a Read More …