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Innisfail RCMP received a report of a truck being stolen in their detachment area. Police were able to track the stolen truck to a rural property on Range Road 25 in Mountain View County.” A search warrant was executed at Read More …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is partnering with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to test cutting-edge demining technologies in the previously occupied community of Kamianka in Kharkiv Oblast. This collaboration between the Read More …
A ‘Doomsday wreck’ stuffed with 1,400 tons of WW2 explosives is collapsing, threatening the Thames with a tsunami, a new survey of the ship has revealed. The SS Richard Montgomery sank in the Thames Estuary in August 1944, coming to Read More …
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) called on the public to be vigilant during and after floods because of the risk that they could unearth landmines due to landslides or runoff. According to the announcement from the Read More …
This is the moment an unexploded bomb was detonated on an Anglesey beach. The bomb squad was called to Ynys y Fydlyn, in the north of the island and the beach was cordoned off while it was exploded. Coastguard teams Read More …
More than 24,000 unexploded ordnance (UXOs) items of all kinds have been recovered from the Kingdom’s rivers and waterways in the past year and four months. The operations are part of a campaign to clear explosive remnants of war (ERWs) Read More …
A local resident unearthed around 50 unexploded PMN-type anti-personal landmines in a field in Battambang province’s O’Kaki village on July 21, according to a National Police statement. According to the July 22 announcement, the unexploded ordnance (UXO) was discovered in Read More …
Bomb disposal experts of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have seized and destroyed a FAB-500 aerial bomb in the village of Malynivka in Pokrovsk district, Donetsk Oblast. It is noted that the bomb was found during an examination of Read More …
An unexploded wartime bomb was detonated by experts at Powfoot beach. The World War II mortar had been discovered by a man with a metal detector who alerted the emergency services. And on Friday morning the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team Read More …
Following decades of war, Afghanistan has one of the highest levels of explosive hazard contamination in the world including both legacy explosive contamination and new types of explosive hazards, in particular Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), as well as explosive remnants Read More …
Indian Air Force officials on Friday disposed of a World War 2-era bomb through a controlled explosion at Bhulanpur village in West Bengal’s Jhargram district, police said. The bomb was found by the villagers on June 29 when they were Read More …
A controlled explosion has been carried out in Sheffield after a historic explosive device was found. South Yorkshire Police were called to Ball Street in Kelham Island earlier today (June 30) following reports a suspected explosive device had been found Read More …
Ukrainian Colonel Ruslan Berehulia, head of the Ministry of Defense’s Environmental Safety and Mine Action Department, reported that Defense Ministry specialists have cleared 30,000 square kilometers of Ukraine over the past two years – an area comparable to the size Read More …
Five large bombs were discovered hidden in the walls of the historic al-Nuri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the armed group ISIL’s (ISIS’s) rule over the region. The mosque – famous for its Read More …
An unexploded bomb from World War II discovered near the Darwin waterfront has been safely detonated. Emergency services moved people away from Stokes Hill Road and closed other streets in the Northern Territory city when the device was found at Read More …
The old city of Mosul, once a bustling urban center, became a battleground in 2017 as Iraqi forces, supported by the Global Coalition, clashed fiercely with ISIS. This brutal conflict led to widespread devastation of infrastructure and homes. Despite ongoing Read More …
A Second World War hand grenade was blown up in a field after police found it in a home. The unexploded grenade was found in a home near West Langney Lake in Eastbourne this afternoon. Sussex Police officers say that Read More …
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) bomb disposal experts have defused a 250 kg high-explosive air bomb that fell on the grounds of a household in Kostiantynivka, “A 250 kg high-explosive air bomb was removed by SES bomb disposal Read More …
A controlled explosion was due to be carried out following the discovery of what was believed to be a mortar round in a Lincolnshire village. The device was found in Caythorpe, near Sleaford, on Monday afternoon. Earlier, police set up Read More …
Scores of unexploded Second World War bombs and mines off the Norfolk coast could have to be blown up to pave the way for a huge wind farm. Danish energy firm Ørsted wants to build its £8bn Hornsea 3 project Read More …