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An 18-year-old Maine man and two other teens, one in Chicago and another in Kentucky, conspired to attack a Chicago mosque with homemade explosives this month, new court documents reveal – until the FBI unraveled the plot. The teens, agents Read More …
On Friday (March 25) morning, the police recovered 200 crude bombs from Margram village in Rampurhat II CD Block in Birbhum district of West Bengal. The area falls under the administration of the Hansan Vidhan Sabha constituency. As per reports, Read More …
Authorities found bomb-making materials, a partial improvised explosive device, smoke bombs and firework mortars inside a Henrico County home last week, according to a search warrant. The investigation forced some nearby residents to leave their homes until the next day. Read More …
A man who was found making an explosive device in Blaenavon has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Martin Johnson, 55, was arrested in April 2021 after the army’s bomb disposal unit were called to Trem-Y-Mynydd in Blaenavon. Johnson, Read More …
A man made a bomb and told his daughter he wanted to use it to steal from a bank. Martin Johnson appeared at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday and admitted making an improvised explosive device (IED). The 55-year-old, of Greenmeadow Read More …
A 15-year-old boy accused of making dangerous explosive devices in his home was arrested, Louisiana police said. Detectives first got a tip about the teenager on Tuesday, March 15, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Read More …
“Railway operations were disrupted for two hours after a crude bomb was found on the railway track near Guraru railway station. It is within 100 meters range of the railway station,” said Manish Kumar, Additional Superintendents of Police, Gaya. Railway Read More …
At least seven persons were killed and seven others injured following a powerful explosion in a house in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, police said on Friday. The explosion took place at around 11.30 p.m. on Thursday night in the house in Read More …
A Maine teenager allegedly found with several shrapnel-packed explosives in his home had been plotting online to travel to Chicago and commit “mass murder” at area places of worship, federal prosecutors said this week. Xavier Pelkey, 18, of Waterville, Maine, Read More …
A Birmingham terrorist has been named as the mastermind behind a foiled plot to blow up planes heading from the UK to the USA. Rashid Rauf, originally from Alum Rock, was thought to have been killed in an American drone Read More …
An RCMP bomb squad was called to a North Kamloops apartment last week after the discovery of what appeared to be a homemade bomb. According to police, on Friday at about 4 p.m., Mounties responded to the 300-block of Tranquille Read More …
Five pipe bombs and ammunition have been found in a residential complex in Ramlah, Central District during a search carried out by the station police, Border Police and the K-9 unit. A local resident was arrested for questioning. The items Read More …
A 23-year-old man has been arrested in Sacramento, California, in connection with two explosions in a neighborhood, police said Sunday. Investigators served a search warrant on Saturday following an explosion that caused damage to a vehicle the previous day, a Read More …
Police have charged a 29-year-old man they say detonated a homemade bomb near two busy Leederville restaurants just hours before he allegedly sparked another scare with a second crude explosive device. The man, who was refused police bail, is due Read More …
A man died and five others sustained injuries when some crude bombs which they were allegedly making went off on Monday night at Rameswarpur-Dakshinpara village in the Beldanga area of Bengal’s Murshidabad district, police said. Local villagers told the police Read More …
With domestic extremism on the rise, U.S. officials say the threat from homemade bombs is also surging. There were more than 400 bombing incidents in 2020, up 70 percent from the year before. The FBI and DHS’s CISA are now Read More …
A man faces multiple firearm-related charges after Toronto police officers alleged the accused had homemade bombs and a crossbow. According to a statement issued by the service Wednesday afternoon, officers began their investigation on Monday in the Leslie Street and Read More …
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said they arrested Zachary Schmidt on for leaving a bag containing an improvised explosive device (IED) outside of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tuesday night. Around 8 p.m. on Jan. Read More …
A former CIA officer claims Scotland Yard wanted to allow jihadists plotting Britain’s worst-ever terror attack to board jumbo jets with their bombs. Met chiefs “wanted to play to the very edge” as they built a case against fanatics who Read More …
An “eccentric” Co Armagh weapons collector who admitted making a “blast-incendiary improvised” bomb has been handed a 15 month sentence. Although ordered to serve half his sentence in jail and the rest on licence, Sean Fintan Burns will soon be Read More …