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A member of a self-defense group, also known as a vigilante, was killed Tuesday morning after an improvised explosive device went off in Cameroon’s Far North Region, according to security and local sources. Members of the vigilante group were on Read More …
A 46-year-old security officer’s failure to dispose of a fake improvised explosive device (IED) used in a simulation exercise led to police officers being activated to investigate a bomb threat. Investigations by the police then led to the discovery of Read More …
Security forces recovered a huge cache of explosives, hidden by Naxalites, from two places in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Sunday, an official said. The recovery was made between Tondamarka and Dabbamarka villages under Kistaram police station limits by a joint Read More …
Six security personnel, including a DSP, were martyred and 12 militants killed in separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan on Friday night and Saturday. In one incident, eight militants were killed in a gun battle with security forces during Read More …
Seven children were martyred and two civilians were injured, including a woman, when an explosive device planted by terrorists exploded in the southern neighborhood of Al-Sanamayn city in the northern countryside of Daraa. A source in the Daraa Police Command Read More …
A CPI(M) worker was killed and another seriously injured when a crude bomb, which they were allegedly making, went off in Kerala’s Kannur district early on Friday. The police have identified the deceased as Sherin, 26, and the injured as Read More …
Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), Ilene Cohn, said, “it is time to stop the use by terrorists and other non-State armed groups of improvised explosive devices.” The Director of UNMAS today (04 Apr) spoke to reporters Read More …
Security personnel recovered three powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) during anti-naxal operations in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Wednesday, police said. The security forces, which included CRPF, Cobra, Jharkhand Jaguar, and district armed police, have been conducting combing operations in Read More …
Security forces arrested 20 wanted persons throughout the West Bank. The IDF Spokesman added that in the village of Al Funduq, the forces located and confiscated a rifle and destroyed three improvised explosive devices. In the village of Qibya, five Read More …
Explosives hidden in icons and seized by security officers in the Pskov Region in Russia’s northwest could have blown up a five-story apartment block, Department Head of the Interior Ministry’s Regional Forensic Center Dmitry Belotserkovsky said on Tuesday. Russia’s Federal Read More …
In less than 15 years, Sweden has gone from being one of the world’s safest countries to having the highest rate of gun homicides in the entire EU (double that of Croatia, the second highest) and a number of explosions Read More …
A man faces charges after an FBI investigation forced the evacuation of a downtown building Thursday afternoon. Vincenzo Cilino, 24, of Rochester, was taken into custody while the FBI and Rochester police were executing a search warrant at 214 Andrews Read More …
Ahead of Lok Sabha elections, a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast has shaken a village in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Friday. According to reports, the explosion rocked Durgapur village in Borobekra sub-division of Jiribam district in the wee hours Read More …
On Thursday, media sources revealed that one person was killed and two others were injured when an explosive device exploded in a car belonging to an officer in the Damascus government forces in the town of Jdeidet Artouz al-Balad in Read More …
Mines, explosive remnants of war, and improvised explosive devices continue to cause death and injury, especially in situations of armed conflict. On average, one person is killed or injured by such an explosive device every hour. Many children are among Read More …
A crude bomb explosion during its preparation has left a man dead and two other people injured in Madaripur’s Kalkini Upazila. The incident took place on the bank of the river Arial Khan in Notun Char Daulat Khan village around Read More …
A man hiking in rural Arizona with his children made a potentially explosive discovery last week: a partially assembled pipe bomb. The hiker found an ammo can within a cluster of boulders Friday near Hillside, a Yavapai County community about Read More …
An explosion at a small hotel near a police station in north-eastern Kenya killed four people on Monday (Mar. 25). The blast took place in the town of Mandera, which is on the border with Somalia. The blast was caused Read More …
Gardaí discovered four viable explosive devices during the search of a van in southwest Dublin on Sunday. A man in his 40s was arrested following the search in Ronanstown, Dublin 22. He remains in Garda custody in Dublin, detained under Read More …
Gardaí in Limerick have seized a suspected pipe bomb, drugs, cash and watches, and arrested seven people during an ongoing search operation yesterday. The operation aimed at targeting the sale and supply of illegal drugs and related criminal activity in Read More …