Mexican drug cartels throwing explosives along Texas southern border

Mexican drug cartel operatives continue to engage in violent acts along the southern border of Texas near the Rio Grande, as new video shows them throwing explosives as an intimidation tactic, authorities say. The Texas Department of Public Safety posted Read More …

IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 189

In the latest indications of military activities some distance away from the ZNPP, the experts have continued to hear explosions almost every day and they have also heard occasional machine gun fire. The IAEA has been informed that the power Read More …

UK: Man admits possessing a pressure cooker bomb

A clinical support worker who is accused of planning terrorist attacks on a hospital and an RAF base has admitted possessing a pressure cooker bomb. Mohammed Farooq, 27, was arrested in the early hours of January 20 in the grounds Read More …

Israel: IDF seized Hamas weapons cache

Israel Defense Forces confiscated a large cache of weapons and supplies from Hamas terrorists amid the attack against Israel, the group announced Sunday. The weaponry removed from Hamas’ possession included rockets, grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and ammunition. The IDF pointed to Read More …

U.S. Army Explosives Forensics Stakeholders Meet to Collaborate on Future Defense Capabilities

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD – The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) recently hosted the first Stakeholder Engagement Day for the Army Explosives Forensics program. This program aims to develop and augment sensor technologies for Read More …

Florida: Man hid firework mortars with shrapnel attached inside Eustis home before assaulting woman

Lake County deputies said a man who fled after assaulting a woman in Eustis on Sunday hid improvised explosive devices inside the home before he left. The sheriff’s Office said David Flores, 37, was taken into custody early Wednesday in Read More …

IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine – Update 187

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts were today granted access to the rooftop of reactor unit 2 of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and did not observe any mines or explosives there, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said. From Read More …

Malaysia: Couple arrested after explosives found in Penang apartment

Police detained a 32-year-old man and a 38-year-old foreign woman after finding a packed of homemade IED bomb in their unit at the Taman Pandan flats, here on Sunday (Oct 8). Seberang Perai Utara (SPU) OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Asri Read More …

Mexico: Police raid on a house in Jalisco uncovers workshop for making drone-carried bombs

A police raid on a house built to look like a castle uncovered a workshop for making drone-carried bombs, authorities in Mexico’s western state of Jalisco said Wednesday. State police distributed photos of 40 small cylindrical bombs with fins meant Read More …

Philippines: PNP detonates 362 lbs. of explosives in Tarlac ops

Bomb technicians of the Philippine National Police-Explosive Ordnance Division (PNP-EOD) disposed of some 362 lbs. of explosives seized in various operations. In a statement Wednesday, the PNP-EOD said the explosives were disposed of in a “critical disposal mission” at Col. Read More …

UK: South Shields man arrested after bomb experts called to a house

A man arrested after bomb disposal experts were called to a house has admitted having an explosive substance. Homes were evacuated on St Aidan’s Road, South Shields, South Tyneside, and suspicious items were seized after an explosion was reported on Read More …

UK: Tighter restrictions on bomb-making chemicals come into force in wake of Manchester Arena attack

Tighter measures to crackdown on the sale of bomb-making chemicals in the wake of the Manchester Arena terror attack have been introduced. The restrictions on explosive substances, which come into force today (Sunday, October 1), follows the UK Government’s commitment Read More …

New Jersey: Cumberland County Man Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Possessing Destructive Device and Explosive Materials

A Cumberland County man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for possessing a destructive device and explosive materials, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced. Thomas Petronglo, 64, of Vineland, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Read More …

Mozambique: Police Collect 33 Explosive Devices in Sofala

The Mozambican Police (PRM) has collected 33 military explosive devices in Beira city and the neighbouring district of Dondo, in the central province of Sofala, following the death last week of one person and injury of two others as the Read More …

Kenya: Police intercept vehicle ferrying explosive materials from Nairobi

The vehicle in question was ferrying the materials from Nairobi to Kitui when police intercepted it. Acting on a tipoff, sleuths had the vehicle on their radar, catching up with the driver in Kitui. A search conducted saw the police Read More …

Pakistan: Rickshaw Laden With Explosives Intercepted In Khyber

In a proactive operation, the police in the Khyber district intercepted a loader rickshaw transporting a significant quantity of gunpowder and apprehended the rickshaw driver. District Police Officer Salim Abbas reported that the police made the crucial interception at the Read More …

Georgia: Cobb County police find unexploded grenades in home of dead veteran

While inside the home of a dead veteran on Tuesday, Cobb County police had to deal with a rare situation. Officers were made aware of several unexploded grenades dating back more than 50 years. The Cobb bomb squad then responded Read More …

Northern Ireland: Two police officers injured in fireworks incident in Enniskillen

A police officer suffered concussion and another was treated in hospital after a firework was aimed in their direction in Enniskillen on Thursday. It happened as officers responded to a report about young people throwing fireworks at Hollyhill Link Road. Read More …

Yemen’s explosives contamination ‘among world’s worst’

Yemen has one of the world’s highest rates of contamination with landmines and other deadly explosives, the International Committee of the Red Cross has warned, nine years after the start of the brutal civil war. The impoverished Arab nation, plunged Read More …

Nigeria: NDLEA intercepts Kaduna-bound explosives, drugs, arrests grandma, others

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have intercepted 399 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices, (IEDs), from one Asana Oluwagbenga Leke, 39, along Mokwa-Jebba road on Thursday 7th September. The suspect who has been handed over to authorities Read More …