India: Suspected Improvised Explosive Devices seized in Sonitpur

The police on Tuesday recovered three suspected handmade Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the Sonitpur district, which borders neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh. The police informed that a person was arrested in connection with the recovery. According to the sleuths, acting on Read More …

Northern Ireland: Viable device found during security alert in Dungiven

A viable device has been discovered during a security alert in County Londonderry, police have said. The alert happened in the Ballyquin Road area of Dungiven on Friday afternoon. Officers attended the scene and cordons were put in place following Read More …

MINUSMA’s Nepalese Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company: Heroes Behind Safe Convoys In Mali

As MINUSMA inches closer to its withdrawal from Mali by 31st December 2023 in line with UN Security resolution 2690, it is important to acknowledge the significant contributions of the Nepal Explosive Ordnance Disposal company to the implementation of the Read More …

Washington: 16-year-old boy tells therapist he made three homemade bombs, threatens to use them at Cheney Public Schools

A 16-year-old boy is in custody after creating three homemade bombs and threatening to use them at the WIN Academy in Cheney. The boy told an INBH therapist that one of the bombs he made was at his girlfriends house, Read More …

Philippines: ‘Kamandag’ troops train on bomb disposal techniques in Palawan

Troops participating in the “Kaagapay ng mga Mandirigma mula sa Dagat” (“Kamandag”) exercises in Palawan have engaged in proficient drills that would boost their capabilities in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and other combat subject matter expert exchanges (SMEEs). In a Read More …

Israeli Navy’s elite underwater unit operates in Gazan waters

The Israeli Navy’s underwater task force YALTAM found dozens of weapons and other combat equipment in a scan of the Gaza Strip’s shores, the IDF said on Monday. The YALTAM unit recovered explosive belts, other improvised explosive devices, and ammunition. Read More …

Best kept secret: BC RCMP’s Explosive Disposal Unit

Last summer, two male suspects entered a Saanich bank clad in full body armor and armed with semi-automatic SKS rifles. When officers arrived on scene, there was an armed robbery in progress and 22 innocent people were inside the bank. Read More …

Bangladesh: Crude bombs found near Rajshahi Rail station defused

Two crude bombs found near the main gate of Rajshahi Rail station on Sunday night have been defused. Security guards of the railway station spotted the bombs wrapped with red scotch tape around 9:30 pm and informed the police. On Read More …

Bangladesh: Three crude bombs found in Nilkhet

Three crude bombs were recovered from the Nilkhet area of Dhaka on Thursday morning, on the last day of a three-day blockade enforced by the BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and their allies. The bomb disposal unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Read More …

Pakistan: Two IEDs defused in Bannu

The personnel of the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) defused two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and saved the area from destruction in Janikhel on Wednesday. The police said that suspected militants had planted two IEDs, one each to a grocery shop Read More …

Jammu and Kashmir: IED destroyed in Baramulla

A major tragedy was averted by troops on Friday by timely detecting and defusing an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) along the Handwara Baramulla Highway. An army official said a high-powered IED connected with three 10-kilogram LPG Cylinders was spotted by Read More …

India: Border Security Force recovers bombs, foils major attack plan

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on Tuesday recovered bombs dumped in a forest in Odisha’s Malkangiri district during an anti-Maoist operation, thus averting a major explosion. The explosives were randomly placed underground reportedly by Maoists to cause extensive casualty at Read More …

NATO bomb disposal training now crucial part of Ukraine military support

An annual exercise aimed at showing recruits how to get rid of explosive devices took part in Iceland. A NATO mission training soldiers in bomb disposal, used in conflicts throughout the world, is now a crucial part of the multi-national Read More …

High Threat IEDD Exercise, Northern Challenge 23: A First for the 26MEU(SOC) and the U.S. Marine Corps

KEFLAVIK, ICELAND – U.S. Marine Corps explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) operators from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (26MEU(SOC)) participated in Exercise Northern Challenge 2023 alongside various NATO Allies and partners, Sept. 21 to Oct. 5. Northern Challenge Read More …

U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs train with Senegalese Armed Forces troops

U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal techs returned home to Fort Leonard, Missouri, following a three-month training session with Senegalese Armed Forces EOD troops in Dakar, Senegal. Soldiers from the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD) recently conducted new equipment and counter Improvised Read More …

Pakistan: Car-bomb plot foiled in Quetta

The law-enforcement agencies on Wednesday foiled an attempt to carry out a car-bomb attack in the city and seized an explosives-laden car from a parking lot near a police station in the Eastern Bypass area. “Over 35 kilograms of high Read More …

Ontario: IED believed to be on vehicle in Barrie, parking lot explodes, sparking evacuations

Police locked down and evacuated a section of Barrie, Ont., Wednesday in the city’s west end after an explosion in a parking lot. Barrie Police Services Corporate Communications Coordinator Peter Leon said the improvised explosive device (IED) is believed to Read More …

Ecuador: Video shows police blowing up explosive-laden drone on prison’s roof

A drone loaded with explosives blasted a hole in the roof of a prison that has held some of Ecuador’s most notorious drug lords, in the latest sign of the nation’s slide into chaos. Police special forces carried out a Read More …

Cyprus: Limassol man finds IED at entrance to his home

A 63-year-old man in Limassol found an improvised explosive device (IED) outside his home police reported on Wednesday. According to police statement, the man who found the IED in his home in the village of Pyrgos, reported the matter to Read More …