Rome: IED Discovered, Destroyed In Front of Stadio Olimpico Ahead of 2020 Euro Game

The homemade bomb was allegedly reported as a suspicious-looking package on a car in the Prati area, just a couple of miles from the stadium. According to Italian news outlet Il Messaggero, it was a “machine with some suspicious threads” Read More …

Philippines: Jack Russel Terrier puppies to train on bomb detection

The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) Explosive and Ordnance Division (EOD) and K-9 Unit recently received two male puppies it would be raising and training to become Explosive Detection Dogs (EDD). Mayor Jerry Treñas said the Jack Russel Terrier puppies Read More …

104th Explosive Ordnance Disposal team trains for joint response

Explosive ordnance disposal technicians from the 104th Civil Engineering Squadron attended Raven’s Challenge Interoperability Exercise June 6-11, 2021, at Fort Devens Army Base, Devens, Massachusetts. Raven’s Challenge is an annual, interagency, counter improvised explosive device exercise, funded by the Department Read More …

Pakistan: 72 terror suspects arrested in a week

Keeping in view the recent wave of terrorism across the country, particularly targeted killing of police officials, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab conducted 64 intelligence-based operations across the province and arrested seven identified terror suspects during last seven days. Read More …

Nigeria: Six Robbery Suspects Killed, as Gunmen ‘Bomb’ Delta Police Station

At about 1:00am on Sunday, a gang of heavily armed men invaded and razed down the Ashaka Police Station alongside several vehicles parked in the station premises. The unidentified attackers were said to have come with improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Read More …

Afghan National Police discovered and defused IEDs in Kabul, Faryab, Nimruz and Ghazni provinces

The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse four IEDs in Kabul and Faryab provinces. The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse four IEDs in Kabul and Read More …

Nigeria: CP Odumosu deploys EOD personnel, others to Lagos markets

Lagos State Police Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu has deplored personnel of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal, EOD unit to markets dominated by Igbo traders in the state , with a view to detecting and detonating any combustive substance that could be Read More …

Philippines: Man arrested after 53 sacks of explosive chemicals, bomb-making materials seized

Police arrested a man and seized a large volume of explosive chemicals and materials for bomb-making during a raid Saturday morning in an island town of Olutanga, Zamboanga Sibugay, according to official. Col. Albert Larubis, Zamboanga Sibugay Provincial Police Office Read More …

Turkey: 2 improvised explosives of PKK terrorists seized in eastern Bingol province

Turkish gendarmerie forces seized two improvised explosives belonging to the PKK terror group in the eastern Bingol province, a local authority said on Friday. The gendarmerie teams received the intelligence that explosives are buried in the rural areas of Yayladere Read More …

South Korean, U.S. troops conduct combined explosive ordnance disposal training

Dozens of South Korean and American troops conducted joint explosive ordnance disposal training Tuesday to hone bomb disposal skills in various settings and to improve interoperability, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The training took place at the Naval Read More …

UK: Survey of explosives contamination in the environment

Scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will shortly conduct an environmental survey across a number of different locations to detect and identify traces of explosives that are present in the general environment. The data is used to Read More …

County Antrim: PSNI carry out evacuation after discovery of viable explosive device

Police received a report that a suspicious object had been discovered outside a property on Main Street in Glenavy shortly before 6pm on Saturday evening. Police and army bomb disposal experts atended the scene, closing Main Street and evacuating nearby Read More …

Afghanistan: ANDSF discovered and defused IEDs in Zabul and Helmand provinces

As a result of several separate operations in the Arghandab district of Zabul province, special police units discovered and defused 16 roadside bombs yesterday. The terrorists wanted to kill civilians in this province by blowing up these mines. نیروهای قطعات Read More …

Arizona: Sierra Vista Police: Man arrested following alleged explosion

The Sierra Vista Police Department made an arrest following an alleged explosion. On May 17, 35-year-old James Jaggers III of Sierra Vista was taken into custody after officers and state explosive experts discovered suspected remains of an explosive device, and Read More …

Michigan: Expect to hear explosions outside Ann Arbor, FBI says

Residents living in and around Scio Township can expect to hear several loud explosions Thursday afternoon and should not be alarmed. The FBI field office out of Detroit is hosting a training session on weapons of mass destruction and improvised Read More …

Northern Ireland: Policing committee hears call for information following pipe bomb incident in Tuam

Galway Bay fm newsroom – The county joint policing committee has heard calls for anyone who may have information regarding the recent pipe bomb incident in Tuam to come forward in confidence to Gardaí. Local area councillor Colm Keaveney appealed Read More …

UK: Cambridge student jailed for exploding parcel postal fraud

A student who sent packages with improvised explosive devices through the post as part of a plot to get fraudulent refunds has been jailed. Ovidijus Margelis, from Cambridge, sent the packages to depots around the UK, causing evacuations, road closures Read More …