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In a shocking incident, a hand grenade attack targeted the Levies headquarters located on Tehsil Road in Mastung, according to police reports. The attack resulted in one person sustaining injuries. The victim, who was struck by the blast, fortunately only Read More …
In the past week, demining units of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s State Special Transport Service found and neutralized 3,948 explosive objects. The State Special Transport Service said this in a post on its Facebook page, Ukrinform reports. “The area of Read More …
Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams detonated a WWII bomb which was discovered in a garden in Devon yesterday (May 27). A Royal Navy team from the Diving & Threat Exploitation Group (DTXG) responded to assist police following the discovery Read More …
Armenia-planted landmines countinue to kill and maim Azerbaijanis in recently liberated territories, Azernews reports citing the post shared by Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry on its official “X” account. “Despite extensive efforts, demining operations face many challenges due to Armenia’s refusal to Read More …
The military command of the central province of Quang Binh coordinated with the PeaceTrees Vietnam project to safely detonated a 334kg bomb left from the war on May 28. The bomb was discovered on May 27 by soldiers of infantry Read More …
Is your construction land free from explosives and other hazards? To be certain, a test must be conducted, and not just for one reason. Situations involving the discovery of explosives during construction are not unheard of. These incidents can happen Read More …
Nooruddin Rustamkhil, head of Coordination, Cooperation, and Mine Clearance, stated that since the beginning of 2024, “nearly 50 people have been killed and more than 150 injured” due to landmines and other explosive materials. Rustamkhil told TOLOnews that “over 100 Read More …
The ceremony was co-organized by Vietnam National Mine Action Center (VNMAC) in coordination with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) under the support from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). Attending the launching ceremony were Deputy Defense Minister, Senior Lieutenant Read More …
A Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) expert team has discovered another war-left U.S.-made MK-82 aerial bomb in southeast Svay Rieng province, a mine clearance chief said on Tuesday. According to the official, since the start of the year, the EOD Read More …
Unidentified persons hurled three hand grenades on a police post in Jumma Khan Khwarh area in the jurisdiction of Nasir Bagh police station on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Sunday night. The city police said of the three Read More …
One civilian died as a result of a landmine explosion in Azerbaijan’s Tartar district, reads a joint statement from the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Azerbaijan Mine Action Agency (ANAM). On May 21, Arzu Hajiyev (born in Read More …
A man died on Sunday after an unexploded ordnance (UXO), identified as a DK75 mortar shell, exploded while he attempted to dismantle it with an axe to sell as scrap metal. The incident occurred in Trang village, Phnom Dei commune 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 African Union Commission (AUC), in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), hosted a roundtable discussion on the ongoing challenges posed by landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) in Africa as part of the Commemoration 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 …
In the first three months of this year, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) cleared more than 51 square kilometres of mines-contaminated land. According to the centre’s report published recently, CMAC found and destroyed 4,092 mines, including 4,058 anti-personnel mines, 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 …
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 …