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A reported explosion closed a vital railway supply route in Russian-occupied Crimea on Wednesday, as Moscow and its regional collaborator authorities struggle with a wave of sabotage attacks. Sergey Aksyonov, the Kremlin-installed head of occupied Crimea, announced via Telegram on Read More …
The IAEA is aware of reports of mines having been placed near the cooling pond. No mines were observed at the site during the Director General’s visit, including the cooling pond. However, the IAEA is aware of previous placement of Read More …
Police have arrested a Norwegian citizen in Hungary on suspicion that he was planning an extremist attack modeled after a 2011 massacre in Norway that killed 77 people, authorities said Tuesday. The National Investigation Office of the Hungarian police said Read More …
About 3,350 people have become victims of mines in Azerbaijan over the past 30 years, Trend reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed the above figures in its Facebook publication. The ICRC also said that together with Read More …
Five children aged between 7 and 11 years were injured when a crude bomb went off in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district on Monday, a police officer said. The incident took place inside a mango garden at Mathpara in Jangipur around Read More …
A provincial police officer in Wardak province said one person was killed in a mine explosion on Sunday. According to the official, an explosive device concealed amid rubbish exploded on Saturday afternoon while an Afghan street worker was collecting trash Read More …
Security forces on Sunday dug out a large quantity of rusted explosive material, including 11 RPG rounds and grenades, from underneath rocks in a forested area in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, officials said. The officials said the explosive material, Read More …
A British bomb from World War II was detonated in a controlled explosion in Hanover on Sunday. More than 8,000 residents were forced to leave their homes in the central German city while the operation was carried out in a Read More …
A team of Counter Terrorism and Bomb Disposal Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) defused a crude bomb found in front of Government Bangabandhu Technical and ICT Institute principal’s room in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore early Sunday. Earlier, on Saturday Read More …
“A working group will be created as part of the Interdepartmental Working Group, which will develop the Strategy. Executive bodies were invited to submit candidacies to the group. We are planning to involve all interested persons so that to develop Read More …
Military chiefs have formed a new domestic counter-terror unit to offset pressure on Britain’s Special Forces. Razor Squadron is the first new special operations team to be established since the creation of the Special Forces Support Group at the start Read More …
Mines dating back to the Cambodian Civil War five decades ago were successfully removed from Thai territory along the border with Cambodia on Friday. The Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC) of the Royal Thai Army was alerted via social media Read More …
Police are looking for two individuals who might have planted an improvised explosive device on the vehicle of lawyer Alberto Magulta that exploded outside his office along Ecowest Drive in Ecoland on Thursday morning. Maj. Rose Aquilar, station commander of Read More …
The General Directorate of the Iraqi Kurdistan Mine Action Agency (MAA) in Erbil on Wednesday announced in a statement that they had defused a number of mines in the Sidekan district of the Soran independent administration. The statement added that Read More …
At least two people were killed in a landmine explosion in Balochistan’s Barkhan district on Tuesday morning. The landmine explosion took place near the Barkhan border with the troubled Kohlu district. Levies sources said two pedestrians were hit by the Read More …
The United States is expected to approve the transfer of depleted-uranium anti-tank shells to help Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, according to The Wall Street Journal. The move follows weeks of internal discussions on the subject between the White Read More …
This background briefing surveys the types of landmines used in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion began on February 24, 2022. Antipersonnel mines explode by the presence, proximity, or contact of a person, and can kill and injure people long Read More …
Taliban officials in Nuristan province said at least three children sustained injuries from a land mine explosion in the Kamdish district of eastern Nuristan province. Sameulhaq Bayan, the head of the information and culture department of Nuristan province on Monday Read More …
Today (12/6) Asad Bhatti of Holland Close, Redhill was handed an eight year jail sentence following an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE). The investigation began when it was reported to police that documents with suspicious titles about Read More …
Four relics of war – unexploded ordnance (UXO) – were found by villagers while they were plowing fields on Saturday. The UXO was identified as leftover from the war and reported to authorities at 1:20pm on Saturday. Local authorities said Read More …