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Ohio University Police Department’s (OUPD) newest K9 team graduated from Explosive Detection Canine (EDC) school last Friday, May 6. The team of OUPD officer Brandon King and his canine partner, Bach, celebrated the momentous occasion with family, friends and members Read More …
“Based on international experience, mine clearance may take from 5 to 10 years,” Oleh Bondar, Head of the Pyrotechnic Works and Humanitarian Demining Department of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, said during a briefing at the Ukraine Media Center–Ukrinform. Read More …
Somali police say at least four people have been killed by a suicide explosion that targeted a checkpoint near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu. “I saw four people dead at the scene. Two of them were government soldiers who Read More …
Army bomb disposal experts were called in after suspected mortar bombs were dug up at a construction site in Suffolk. An exclusion area was put in place following the discovery at the site on Dettingen Way in Bury St Edmunds Read More …
A bag containing 54 detonators with a low intensity explosives were found in front of Nagpur Railway station’s main gate on Monday evening. According to the police, a black bag was spotted by a police personnel lying at the railway Read More …
On the morning of April 1, seven children were playing in the lush wheat fields of Afghanistan’s Marjah district, in the southern Helmand province, by tossing around a metal object. Moments later, it exploded. The blast claimed five of their Read More …
Police have carried out two controlled explosions in Westminster following reports of a suspicious vehicle. Earlier, officers set up a cordon and closed roads near Parliament Square. The Queen Elizabeth II Centre and Westminster School were evacuated and Westminster underground Read More …
Police thwarted a possible terror attack and arrested two bike-borne men with an improvised explosive device (IED) packed with around 1.5kg of RDX following a tip-off at Naushehra Pannuan village in Tarn Taran district on Sunday. The IED, packed in Read More …
A teenage boy has been detained after the discovery of homemade bomb parts inside a house – which prompted a major emergency services response and evacuations. Police descended on a residential street in the Chorley area of Lancashire after reports Read More …
Security forces arrested two people in connection with the smuggling of ammunition and explosives from Chaharkant district of Balkh province. Some of the detainees were found with some explosives, 20 hand grenades, 20 grenade launchers and a handgun. The detainees Read More …
A Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC)’s bomb expert team on Thursday safely removed a war-left unexploded AN-M66 aerial bomb from the Chaktomuk River in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, a mine clearance chief said. CMAC’s director-general Heng Ratana said the Read More …
A would-be terrorist hatched plans for a “full-on war” and wrote recipes for a bomb intended for use on a police station, a jury heard. Student Luke Skelton wanted to run a violent group and attack “rape gangs”, Teesside Crown Read More …
An explosive device went off near the entrance of a residential area in Manipur capital Imphal early on Friday, the second explosion to have been reported in 24 hours, police said. No one was injured in the explosion that took Read More …
A day after the arrest of four terror suspects from the Bastara toll plaza with large explosives, the Karnal police got success in determining the persons who had placed three live hand grenades and an improvised explosive device (IED) in Read More …
Wiltshire Police have provided an update after the bomb squad were called to a property in Corsham as the force probes a firearms incident. Officers are understood to have arrested a man at a house in Dicketts Road after a Read More …
A Danish cyclist was killed on Thursday evening when a bomb exploded in the Kani Masi subdistrict of the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, a security source told Kurdistan 24. Initial reports indicated that the cyclist was wounded by a suspected Read More …
In a big breakthrough, Karnal district police arrested four terror suspects near Bastara toll plaza on Thursday. The suspects were arrested with weapons, ammunition and IEDs. Following the arrests, the Punjab Police on Thursday released a statement mentioning the weaponry Read More …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) revealed yesterday that 8.5 million Iraqis live among deadly mines and unexploded remnants of war. “Iraq is one of the most contaminated countries on the planet’s surface with explosive munitions,” ICRC spokeswoman Read More …
The Imo State Police Command on Wednesday confirmed a bomb blast at an oil company in Izombe, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo state. The Command’s spokesperson, CSP Mike Abattam, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Owerri, said it Read More …
Roughly 200 kilograms of commercial explosives was stolen early Sunday morning from a business in a rural area southeast of Regina, police say. White Butte RCMP say they received a report about the theft early Monday morning. Their investigation has Read More …