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The Defence Force sent an explosive disposal team to a Temuka property on Friday after concerns a pipe bomb had been located in the bedroom of a home in the South Canterbury town. A New Zealand Defence Force spokesperson confirmed Read More …
Five Peshmerga were killed and five injured in an Islamic State (ISIS) attack in Diyala province on Saturday, a Peshmerga source told Rudaw Sunday morning. Militants attacked the Peshmerga in the Kolajo sub-district at around 10:15pm, a commander of the Read More …
A combined team of district police commando unit, Imphal East and 15 Assam Rifles, on Thursday arrested one active cadre of proscribed underground organisation PREPAK(Pro) along with improvised explosive device (IED) which was to be planted, reportedly at Mantripukhri, Imphal. Read More …
Police say a doomsday prepper who allegedly amassed dozens of guns and 250 kilograms of explosive material at his home on Sydney’s outskirts put the community at risk of a “catastrophic event”. Simon Mitchell Clay, 42, was arrested during a Read More …
Calera Police Chief David Hyche said a person is facing charges of possession of destructive devices and DUI after two suspected improvised explosive devices were found in a vehicle on I-65. Wesley Edwards Mills has been formally charged with felony Read More …
The Minneapolis Police Department Bomb Squad was called out to secure two suspected explosive devices Friday after local police found them during an investigation into a physical domestic incident in Willmar, according to a news release from Willmar Police Chief Read More …
An improvised explosives device (IED) killed a policeman on Monday in North Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid as parliamentary polls opened in the troubled governorate for the second and final day of voting. The IED exploded while a patrol vehicle was passing Read More …
U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Jeffrey Davenport, 52, of Toledo, was sentenced on Monday, November 22, by Judge Jack Zouhary to 54 months in prison after Davenport pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm Read More …
Israeli security forces arrested dozens of members of a Hamas cell that was in the advanced stages of planning major terror attacks in the West Bank and Israel, the Shin Bet security service said Monday. The effort to uncover the Read More …
Based on specific BSF Intelligence, an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was recovered and demolished by Bomb Disposal Squad on November 19 near Odisha. According to an official statement, the recovery was made along the roadside near Pujhariput chowk on Ramagiri Read More …
As bomb scares continue to agonise the general public in Firozpur, a second bomb rigged in a tiffin box has been identified on Saturday. Reportedly, a grenade packed in a box was found on the Bathinda-Amritsar highway on Saturday. The Read More …
Elephant calves arriving at dusk to drink at the Weheragala reservoir tank in Wasgamuwa National Park can be particularly playful. But one day in September 2020, a lonely young elephant was spotted exhibiting uneasy behavior. After all the other members Read More …
The Liverpool bomber had been buying bomb components since at least April, police have revealed. Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson said that Iraq-born Emad Al Swealmeen had rented a property in Liverpool seven months ago and had started making “relevant Read More …
Due to successive waves of instability and conflict from the 1980s onwards, Afghanistan was heavily contaminated by explosive ordnance (EO). Established to improve this situation, the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan (MAPA) commenced activities in 1988. MAPA is a platform Read More …
At least two people were wounded in a roadside bomb blast that occurred on Monday morning in Police District 5 of Kabul city, officials said. Initially there was a report of no casualties, but the spokesman for the Kabul security Read More …
An explosion outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Remembrance Sunday has been declared a terror incident by police. A taxi exploded and was engulfed in flames just before 11:00 GMT at a drop-off zone near the entrance, killing the passenger and Read More …
Three internally displaced children have died after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit them while playing outside the camp in Guriel town. According to witnesses two others and their mother were reportedly injured after they mistakenly hit the landmine that Read More …
In the ambush against the 46 Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur on Saturday, terrorists first carried out an improvised explosive device (IED) blast and then fired at the vehicles in it, Indian Army officials said. 46 Assam Rifles Commanding Officer Read More …
At least seven people, including a police official, were injured in a blast in Quetta’s Nawa Killi area on Saturday, Civil Hospital spokesperson Waseem Baig said. The injured also included women, the spokesperson added. Security forces and rescue officials rushed Read More …
Two policemen were martyred in a remote-controlled bomb blast in Salarzai area of district Bajaur. According to police, the entire area cordoned off after the blast and a search operation has launched. Both the bodies were shifted to the hospital. Read More …