New Zealand: Customer used bomb-laden ATM after failed robbery in Hamilton

An unsuspecting customer used an ATM that had unexploded pipebombs nearby after a failed attempt by thieves to blast it open. Police found seven pipe bombs at the scene of an attempted heist on a Hamilton mall ATM. Hamilton City Read More …

Protection against terrorist attacks with homemade explosives

Terrorist attacks often feature the use of homemade explosives. For the police and security forces to be able to take appropriate precautions and assess the damage after an attack, they need access to the right kind of tools. A research Read More …

Texas: Former cavalry scout faces 10-years in prison over IED found by FBI at his apartment

A soldier who served in Afghanistan and Iraq was indicted by a federal grand jury in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday for possessing an improvised explosive device, according to court records. Joshua Colin Honigberg, 35, was charged with one count of unlawful possession of Read More …

Seattle: ATF investigating homemade explosives which injured officers during riot

Explosive experts with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are being asked to investigate improvised explosive devices which were thrown at officers by rioters at the West Precinct Sunday. Some of the devices are believed to have been Read More …

Illinois: Lake Forest Hotel Evacuated After Guest Found Making Homemade Bombs In Room

The incident began at about 6:20 p.m., when Orange County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a disturbance at a hotel room at the three-story Staybridge Suites Irvine East/Lake Forest, located at 2 Orchard Rd. When deputies entered the room, they Read More …

Estonia: Bomb made by minors explodes at Lilleküla High School in Tallinn

A homemade explosive device exploded at Tallinn’s Lilleküla High School on Friday and two minors, a teenage boy and girl, are suspected of making the explosive and organizing the explosion, the Estonian daily newspaper Postimees reported. The alarm center received Read More …

Pennsylvania: Man arrested with 30+ homemade bombs in car after threats to blow up building

A man was arrested in Mt. Lebanon Thursday night after police said he made threats on social media to “blow up” a state office building and get “gunned down by the police.” According to our partners at TribLive.com, Kurt James Read More …

7/7 London bombings: What happened, how many victims were there and who were the bombers?

The horrific 7/7 bombings were one of the worst terror attacks ever to hit London – with fifty-two innocent people killed in a series of coordinated explosions by four suicide bombers on July 7, 2005. A group of three suicide Read More …

India: Two men killed in crude bomb explosion in Murshidabad

Two people in a house in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district were killed in the early hours of Saturday after a stockpile of crude bombs exploded. The incident occurred in Ahiron Ghoshpara in the Suti police station area of Jangipur subdivision. Read More …

Punjab: 3 held for Moga blast, made bomb watching YouTube tutorial to settle score with former employer

Moga Police has arrested three men for their involvement in the June 30 blast case outside a food stall. The explosive device, that went off in Moga on Tuesday, was made and planted by three people, including two brothers, to Read More …

Missouri: St. Peters Man Planned to Attack Protesters, Cops With Grenades, IEDs, Police Say

A St. Peters man has been charged with multiple felonies after police found several explosive devices he’d hidden on a rural road in north O’Fallon, acting on a tip from his friends that he planned to use them in a Read More …

Lithuania: Explosion in Vilnius was planned during daytime with people around

The bomb placed at the building housing international company in Vilnius last October did not go off but it could have caused major damage to the building and injured many people, Rolandas Kiskis, chief of Lithuania’s criminal police, says. The Read More …

UK: Man is charged with making a weapon and explosives after police raided house in Southampton

A man has been charged after he was caught by police making a weapon and explosives in his home. Officers found Pascal Knorr-Gulde, 47, making the devices during a raid of his home in Southampton, Hampshire. Neighbouring homes on Bond Read More …

UK: Eastleigh boy, 14, in court over homemade bombs plot

A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court accused of trying to make homemade bombs containing shrapnel. The teenager, from Eastleigh, was arrested on Friday after concerns were raised by social services. He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with one Read More …

Kentucky: LMPD – Two Explosions Set Off At Protests Near Waterfront Park Late Thursday

Two explosions occurred alongside protesters near Louisville’s Waterfront Park Thursday night. Louisville Metro Chief of Public Safety Amy Hess said that one of the explosions left a crater roughly one-and-a-half feet in length on Witherspoon Street. Another nearby explosion, the Read More …

Al-Shabaab could smuggle bomb ingredients as local resources run out – UN

Depletion of locally available ingredients for making explosives could force the militant group Al-Shabaab to smuggle the components into the country, the UN has warned. The chair of the UN Security on Somalia, Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve, told the Council Read More …

Virginia man blew off hand making explosives to target ‘hot cheerleaders’

A southwest Virginia man who blew off his hand in an apparent explosives accident has been charged in federal court after authorities say they found evidence he was making a bomb and wanted to target “hot cheerleaders” because of his Read More …

Hong Kong police arrest 2 people on suspicion of making explosives

A 16-year-old teenager and a 52-year-old woman were arrested on Monday in Hong Kong on suspicion of making or possession of explosives, police said. Chow Cheung-yau, superintendent of the Hong Kong police’s Narcotics Bureau, told a press conference that the Read More …

Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) Fire Investigators Need Help Regarding Dangerous Explosive – video

Portland Fire & Rescue Fire (PF&R) Investigators and Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) Detectives are investigating an explosive device that was thrown over the fence at MCSO deputies in front of the 3rd ave. side of the Justice Center late Read More …

California: Santa Cruz Deputy Killed, Another Wounded In Ben Lomond Ambush

A veteran Santa Cruz County Sheriff Deputy was killed and a second was severely injured by an improvised explosive device Saturday during “an ambush” in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A grief-stricken Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said the dead Read More …