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Croatia has declared itself free of landmines after a three-decade campaign to clear the country of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the 1991-95 Croatian war of independence that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia. It is estimated that, in Croatia alone, around 13,000 square kilometers were once contaminated
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A total of 13 IEDs were found at a private residence belonging to 31-year-old Kenneth Seay in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after a bomb squad was dispatched there on Tuesday 24 February. According to the local news outlet WeAreGreenBay.com, Seay now faces 18 charges related to drugs and explosives, and
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Security forces in the Indian-administered region of Jammu and Kashmir have recovered a cache of arms and explosives in a bust of a militant hideout in Kasbalari village, Poonch district, officials said on Wednesday 25 February. According to the Kashmir News Service, joint teams of police and security forces launched
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Nine people have been killed, including three children, in a landmine explosion in Kordofan, Sudan, on Sunday 22 February. According to Arab News, a medical source speaking to AFP said that the group had been riding in a tuk-tuk along a road in the frontline region when they hit a
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At least three police officers serving in Kenya's General Service Unit have been injured in an IED blast while searching for water aboard a water bowser. According to the Kenyan outlet The Star, police said the incident happened at around 06:33 on Monday 23 February in Fafi,
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Civilian casualties from landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) are increasing in Myanmar's war-torn Rakhine State. According to an article published by Burma News International Online on 17 February, at least five explosion from landmines and UXO were reported across the Minbya, Maungdaw and Ann between January and 16
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At least two people, including a child, have been killed and 17 others injured in an explosion near Miryan police station in Bannu district in northwestern Pakistan on Monday 16 February. This was reported by the Pakistani outlet, Dawn. According to a statement by the police, the bomb was a
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Poland has announced that they will be withdrawing on 20 February from the Ottawa Convention on banning the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines, Polish Radio reported on 16 February. Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska, deputy head of the parliamentary National Defence Committee, is reported to have said that Ukraine’s
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At least 11 people in Nigeria have died after an IED that they were transporting to carry out an attack, detonated. The incident occurred near Babbar Doka village in the northwestern Zamfara state, "amid a resurgence of banditry and the increasing use of explosives against security forces in the
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At least one person was killed and three others, including an army official, were injured when their vehicle was struck by an IED in northern Pakistan on Thursday 12 February. A vehicle belonging to the military engineering and construction organisation, the Frontier Works Organization, was hit by an IED in
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At least four civilians, including two children, were killed when a landmine left over from the war exploded in eastern Syria on Tuesday 10 February. Eight others were injured. According to Syria's Ministry of Emergency and Disaster Management, the landmine struck a vehicle in the al-Kharata area of
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Indian security forces have announced the recovery of a cache of arms, explosives and ammunition across two sites in Tengnoupal, Manipur state, within 24 hours. A police bulletin from Manipur police issued on Monday morning stated that security forces had recovered the large quantity of military equipment from Molnom–Molnoi