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A man was arrested on Wednesday (Oct 25) from India’s southern Chennai city after he hurled a crude bomb outside the Tamil Nadu state governor’s residence. Police said that upon reaching the main gate the alleged perpetrator pulled out a Read More …
Berlin synagogue has been attacked with Molotov cocktails amid an increase in antisemitic incidents in the German capital following the escalating violence in the Middle East. The Kahal Adass Jisroel community said its synagogue in the Mitte area of the Read More …
A woman and three children have been left shaken after a car was set alight outside a house in Londonderry. It happened in the Clon Elagh area on Thursday night. Police said they believe a petrol bomb type device was Read More …
A petrol bomb attack on a van in Newtownards is being treated as arson. The attack took place at approximately 11.30pm on Monday evening in the Deanswood Crescent area of the town. Police officers and the Fire and Rescue service Read More …
Detectives are appealing for information after a house was damaged during a petrol bomb attack in Newtownards on Tuesday night. It was reported to police at around 10.10pm that a petrol bomb had been thrown at the front door of Read More …
Police officers were attacked as they responded to a security alert in Londonderry on Friday evening. The PSNI were at the scene of an alert in the Stewarts Terrace area of Rosemount. Petrol bombs and other missiles were thrown at Read More …
An attack on a mosque in Limassol occurred at midnight on Friday, with police mobilized. The incident reportedly happened around 1:10 p.m., when a person threw two Molotov cocktails towards the mosque and immediately fled. There were no injuries from Read More …
An Arkansas community activist accused in the firebombings of police cars after the 2020 murder of George Floyd pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court. Mujera Benjamin Lung’aho, 33, of North Little Rock, pleaded to one count of malicious destruction of Read More …
A Millsboro man will serve more than seven years in federal prison for building Molotov cocktails and threatening to blow up or burn down the group home where he lived. According to court documents, Job Gillette, 25, amassed 17 Molotov Read More …
Two people were killed and five wounded when an attacker hurled a petrol bomb on a bus in Dakar on Tuesday, the interior minister said. Bus driver Abdoulaye Diop, who was hurt in the attack, told an AFP journalist at Read More …
The Tánaiste has led condemnation of a petrol bomb attack on a former school building which is being retrofitted to house Ukrainian families. Micheál Martin said those responsible for the incident should face the full rigours of the law. He Read More …
A petrol bomb attack on a house in Co Down has been condemned as “utter madness” by a unionist MLA whose parents died in a fire. The property targeted in Holywood was not damaged after the bomb struck a lamp Read More …
A man has been arrested in Mexico on suspicion of setting fire to a bar after he was kicked out, killing 11 people, officials say. The attack happened on Friday night in San Luis Río Colorado, which borders the United Read More …
Police are investigating a link between two petrol bomb attacks in Co Down and an ongoing feud between rival drugs gangs in the area. Detectives have appealed for information following the attacks in Newtownards on Monday. Detective Sergeant Shivers said: Read More …
A police officer was seriously injured during May Day protests as unions in France rallied against new laws to raise the country’s pension age. More than 60 people have been arrested in clashes in Paris, Lyon and Nantes as a Read More …
A suspected petrol bomb has been thrown at a police vehicle in Derry. The incident happened in the Shearwater Way area of Derry at around 10am on Saturday as officers attended a reported incident. The PSNI said the vehicle then came Read More …
Police officers say they were attacked with fireworks, petrol bombs and a Molotov cocktail in a series of violent bonfire night incidents in Scotland. Two officers in Edinburgh were treated in hospital for head injuries after youths threw bricks at Read More …
Detectives are appealing for information following petrol bomb attacks at two houses in Co Antrim. There has also been an arson attack on seven cars in Co Antrim. The first petrol bomb incident occurred in Prospect Park in Carrickfergus, Co Read More …
Four people – including three teenagers – appeared in court yesterday on charges linked to last week’s disturbances in Londonderry. John Paul Moore of Carlton Court in the city faced three charges of possessing with intent, namely three improvised explosive Read More …