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Government troops have discovered an improvised explosive device (IED) and bomb-making components believed to be owned by Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits in a remote area in Lamitan City, Basilan, a top military official said Friday. Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Read More …
A Soviet second world war aerial bomb weighing 100kg has been found in the Danube in central Budapest, a Hungarian Armed Forces spokesman said on Thursday. The bomb will be removed from the riverbed on Monday, Lieutenant Milán Gajdos of Read More …
As powerful barges manned by the Bangladeshi Marine Force Unit deployed to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) make their careful way across the overflowing waters of the White Nile, the air is laced with expectation. Lush, thick Read More …
Police said they will dispose of a naval mine from World War II in the eastern waters of Hong Kong Island on Friday. Officers said they found the mine 1.4 kilometres off Cape D’Aguilar near Shek O after receiving a Read More …
Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) recorded 40 casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) in the first eight months of this year, an increase of 21 % compared with 33 over the same period last Read More …
Eight grenades have been discovered buried in a back garden in Bristol. The explosives, thought to date back to the First World War, were accidentally dug up. Henleaze Avenue was closed while a police explosives team was brought in. Initially, Read More …
The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday said that it recovered an improvised explosive device (IED) weighing 30-35 Kgs during a search operation in Khonmoh area of Srinagar district. “On a specific input regarding presence of militants in Khonmoh area Read More …
At least one soldier was killed and nine others sustained wounds on Tuesday in a bomb blast at a bus station in Barawe, a coastal city in southern Somalia. The explosion happened during rush hour and there was no immediate Read More …
At least 35 civilians have been killed as a convoy of vehicles carrying supplies in Burkino Faso’s restive northern region struck an improvised explosive device (IED), according to the regional governor. The explosion, which wounded 37 others, occurred as the Read More …
Four children were killed after a unexploded ordnance (UO) detonated in an abandoned apartment in Idlib, North West Syria, on Monday, Save the Children said. This follows an explosion of another landmine on farmland in Homs in which three other Read More …
A man was killed and another was seriously injured after a homemade bomb exploded at the Lata Kekabu Recreation Centre in Lenggong, Gerik. Perak police chief Comm Datuk Mohd Yusri Hassan Basri said the deceased is Amiruddin Khairudin, 44, while Read More …
In a first, government forces on Sunday claimed to have recovered magnetic improvised devices in Sopore village in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. In a statement, issued to a local news agency, Kashmir News Observer (KNO), a spokesperson said that a Read More …
A blast occurred this morning in the Darul Aman area of PD7 in capital Kabul city, residents reported and officials confirmed. Kabul security department spokesman Khalid Zadran said in a statement that a suicide bomber was intending to explode himself Read More …
At least 20 people, including women and children, have been killed and food aid destroyed after militants attacked several vehicles in Somalia’s central Hiiraan region. “They put a bomb while people were in the car and blew it up,” the Read More …
As a result of the explosion of a grenade launcher at the munitions exhibition, four children were injured, one of which was rushed to an intensive care unit. That’s according to the Suspilne public broadcaster, Ukrinform reports. “It was confirmed Read More …
U.S. Embassy in Myanmar Security Alert – September 2, 2022 Event: In the last 48 hours, the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar has noted eight Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attacks in Yangon. Five of the IEDs detonated at unspecified locations across Read More …
Mawlawi Mujeeb Rahman Ansari, a famous Islamic cleric and imam of Guzargah mosque in Herat province, was killed in a blast occurring inside the mosque on Friday. The blast happened during the Friday prayers inside the mosque and was due Read More …
Two children, who were brothers, died as a result of the explosion of a grenade, an unexploded explosive remnant of war, in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, according to local Taliban authorities. The event took place on Wednesday, the Read More …
At a time when Balochistan is reeling from floods caused by torrential monsoon rains, militants detonated an improvised explosive device at the working site of Pakistan Petroleum Limited on the outskirts of Kalat, killing one local employee and inflicting injuries Read More …
Fort Wainwright –The 65th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company, known casually as the Far North Bomb Squad, is an Army unit based at Fort Wainwright. While their daily work and operations primarily support the Army and Department of Defense, they also Read More …