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Police are investigating after an active grenade was found outside a bank in the Bang Khun Non area of Bangkok this morning, June 2. Officers from Bang Khun Non Police Station and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) units were called to the scene at roughly Read More …
A suspected shell left over from World War II exploded under a stilt house in an Indonesian fishing village, killing five people and wounding nearly 20. The blast in Indonesia’s restive eastern Papua region startled locals with a thunderous boom Read More …
Humberside Police said a cordon was in place in Foresters Way, Bridlington with an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team in the area. A force spokesperson said: “The device was examined by the EOD team who successfully detonated the device on Read More …
South African retail giant Woolworths confirmed on Friday that improvised explosive devices had detonated at two of its stores, causing extensive damage. According to a company statement, the first device exploded at the Menlyn Park store in Pretoria on Thursday, Read More …
More than 5,000 Iraqis work in mine and unexploded ordnance clearance across Iraq, facing low wages and limited social and health protections despite carrying out one of the country’s most dangerous humanitarian missions, the Eco Iraq Observatory cautioned on Saturday. Read More …
A Cambodian was killed on May 28, 2026 after an unexploded cluster munition detonated while he was collecting firewood in a contaminated area, Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) Director-General Heng Ratana said. In a statement, Ratana said the explosive device Read More …
An Austrian court on Thursday convicted a man of planning to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna nearly two years ago. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. The state court in Wiener Neustadt, south of the capital, found Read More …
A man accused of making bombs at a secret home laboratory near Bathurst has been charged with endangering someone’s life by negligently handling explosives. Bathurst Local Court today heard Paul Stephen Lowry had been charged with more than a dozen Read More …
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday warned that eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a “catastrophic collision of disease and conflict” as a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak outpaces containment efforts in a region already battered by armed violence, Read More …
A man was killed in a car explosion near Or Akiva on Tuesday in central Israel, in the second apparent car bombing to occur within a day. The Magen David Adom emergency service said it received a report at 8:04 Read More …
Larnaca CID believes it has prevented attacks on Cypriot soil after arresting two men, aged 32 and 38, on suspicion of terrorism and finding significant quantities of explosive-making materials at two properties in the city. Investigators are working to establish whether the Read More …
A multi-agency security team has thwarted a suspected terror plot along the Garissa-Dadaab Road, with police recovering an Improvised Explosive Device during a routine multi-agency patrol in the Haji Aden area. The suspect was intercepted on Saturday, May 23, after Read More …
The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service announced on Sunday the killing of three of its personnel and the injury of four others following the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) left behind by ISIS mercenaries in the Al-Hadar desert, southwest of Read More …
At least 14 people were killed and several others were injured after a blast tore through a shuttle train in Quetta on Sunday morning, the Balochistan government said. State-run APP, citing railway authorities, said the shuttle train was heading from Quetta Read More …
A drone is reported to have crashed into Lake Drīdzis in Krāslava region in eastern Latvia on Saturday morning at around 08:00. It detonated upon contact with the water. There were no injuries, the State Police reported. Police received information about this from Read More …
Two schoolchildren were killed after a quadcopter drone, reportedly operated from an unknown location, struck a hilly area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Thursday. Local residents and official sources told Dawn that the fatal incident occurred in the Shahi Thangi area, Read More …
Security forces recovered a cache of arms, communication equipment and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during an operation conducted in the general area between Border Pillar No. 72 and 73 under Moreh Police Station in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district on May 20. Read More …
Thai police have expanded the case against Chinese national Mingchen Sun, who was arrested in connection with the possession of military-grade weapons and explosives, into seven separate cases, with 11 suspects arrested so far. Police said the expanded investigation has Read More …
A police bomb squad has carried out a controlled explosion in a Scottish town after a suspected hand grenade was found in a garden. Officers were sent to the property in the Broadloan area of Renfrew at 7.30pm on Monday night after Read More …
Lithuania’s police officers neutralised a combat drone that crashed in the northern Utena district in a controlled explosion, authorities announced on Monday afternoon. Earlier on Monday, the police said the drone, believed to be Ukrainian, was carrying carrying explosives and Read More …