South Africa: Architta the sniffer dog helps Cape Town cops find explosive device

Architta the sniffer dog, attached to the K9 Unit Provincial Extortion Task Team, helped detect a explosive device in Hout Bay. According to police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg, members of the K9 Unit were informed of an explosive device at Read More …

North Carolina: Dunn man pleads guilty to possession of weapons of mass destruction after blast injures SBI agents

A 36-year-old man from Dunn pled guilty to three counts of possessions of a weapon of mass destruction that seriously injured two State Bureau of Investigations agents in 2019. Agent Tim Luper received second-degree burns and dislocated his shoulder during Read More …

Oregon: Man Shot Fireworks at Police Officers, Tried to Set Off Explosives

Springfield police took a man into custody Sunday morning after authorities said he repeatedly launched powerful fireworks at officers. The man had a supply of vintage blasting caps and “commercial-grade, mortar type fireworks,” police said. Police found the man on Read More …

India: Security forces seize huge cache of explosives near Myanmar border

The Assam Rifles seized a huge cache of explosives and war-like stores near the Myanmar border in Mizoram on Friday, officials said on Saturday. Based on specific information, Assam Rifles along with Mizoram police, launched an operation at Mawhre village Read More …

UK: Navy to dismantle sunken warship on Thames holding unstable explosives

The Royal Navy is to dismantle a sunken warship in the River Thames containing 1,400 tonnes of unstable explosives. It is believed that if the unexploded ordnance on the SS Richard Montgomery were triggered it could lead to the nearby Read More …

UK: Liverpool bomber made device with murderous intent, coroner says

The Liverpool bomber died from an explosion and fire caused by a device he manufactured with “murderous intent”, a coroner has ruled. Emad Al Swealmeen was killed when his bomb went off while he was inside a taxi at Liverpool Read More …

Russia: Supporter of Ukrainian neo-Nazi group detained for 2 months in Rostov-on-Don

A supporter of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi radical youth gang MKU from the southern Rostov Region who plotted the murder of a journalist has been detained for two months, a source in the regional law-enforcement agencies told TASS on Tuesday. During Read More …

Michigan: Grand Rapids police to detonate seized explosives, say blast noise likely near disposal site

Grand Rapids police plan to detonate seized and old explosives as part of a controlled disposal process Thursday, Dec. 30. Police issued an advisory Tuesday, Dec. 28, mostly for people who may be near the disposal site at the city’s Read More …

India: Meghalaya Police recovers live grenade, ammunition, 2 IEDs in separate operations in West Garo Hills

Meghalaya Police on Monday evening carried out two separate counter-insurgency operations in the West Garo Hills district and recovered a grenade, ammunition and two IEDs. During an operation, the Meghalaya Police in West Garo Hills recovered one live grenade and Read More …

Lebanon: UN chief calls for impartial probe into Beirut Port blast

The U.N. chief called on Monday for an impartial and transparent investigation into last year’s massive Beirut port explosion to ensure justice, after paying tribute to the victims of the blast. The Aug. 4, 2020 blast has been described as Read More …

UK: Man accused of having homemade explosives in Plymouth

A man charged with having homemade explosives, bomb-making equipment and indecent images has appeared in court. Stefan Gojke, 66, is charged with five counts of having explosive substances without a lawful purpose in Plymouth between August and September 2019. Five Read More …

India: 72 Arrested For Disturbing Order After Bomb Hurled In Kolkata Civic Polls

As many as 72 people were arrested for allegedly disturbing law and order during Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections on Sunday, the police said. One person was arrested for allegedly hurling bombs in the Sealdah area, in which three voters Read More …

Netherlands: Ten Rotterdam apartments evacuated after explosive thrown through window

Ten homes on the Boudewijnstraat in Rotterdam were evacuated for hours in the early Saturday morning hours after an explosive was thrown through the window of one of the houses. According to a police spokesperson, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service Read More …

West Virginia: Jackson County man pleads guilty to possessing pipe bomb

A Jackson County man has entered a guilty plea connected to possessing a pipe bomb. A West Virginia State Police trooper pulled over Nicholas Boggess of Ripley in October 2019. The trooper noticed the odor of marijuana and obtained permission Read More …

Delhi man arrested at Coimbatore airport for carrying suspected explosive substance

Police said the 31-year-old was carrying packets of a powder that seemed to be in the explosive category of substances; the man claimed it was a type of ore imported from Cambodia The Peelamedu police on Sunday arrested a 31-year-old Read More …

UK: Man is arrested on suspicion of making or possessing an explosive substance in Derby

A man has been arrested and more than 50 houses are evacuated after a number of suspicious items were found during a police search warrant. Officers attended a house in Derbyshire alongside a bomb disposal unit at around 11.30am today Read More …

US military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world

The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election. And so, block by block, he stole 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of C4 plastic explosives from the training Read More …

Uganda: Police discover bomb making materials during operation in Nabweru

The Uganda Police have recovered more bomb making materials in Nabweru a suburb in Kampala during their ongoing operations against suspected Allied Democratic Forces terror cells in the country. Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga says the Joint Security Team will continue Read More …