Emergency services

French police have detained a woman at a hospital in Dunkirk after she made a bomb threat and sparked a security scare, reported Reuters. 

Police said in a statement that the woman made the threat after entering the hospital's emergency care unit.

Hospital workers alerted the police, who sealed off the area and deployed a bomb-disposal team.

THE PLANNED DISPOSAL of an unexploded World War II bomb today will force a mass evacuation around Berlin's central railway station and likely spark transport chaos in the German capital.

Trains, trams, buses and even some flights at the city's Tegel airport will be halted when a police bomb squad starts defusing the British 500-kilogramme bomb unearthed on a building site.

Some 70,000 people in Frankfurt will have to leave their homes this weekend in one of the biggest such evacuations in post-war Germany, police said Aug. 30, after an unexploded World War-II bomb nicknamed "blockbuster" was uncovered.

Greek police are on alert after an anonymous phone call of a bomb threat at bank in the suburb of Egaleo. Police have blocked off the area and a special bomb disposal unit has arrived on the scene. The caller contacted a news site in the morning of Wednesday and warned an explosive device would go off at Davakis Square at bank branch in the suburb of Egaleo in western Attica.

Greek police are on alert after an explosive device was detected on a German couple’s tourist Caravan in the city of Alexandreia in the region of Imathia in Macedonia, Thursday morning.

Police closed down and evacuated two stations on the Athens metro system on Thursday in response to two anonymous bomb threats.

Bomb-disposal experts have been dispatched to Egaleo and Aghia Marina stations after two callers told the police shortly after 1.30 p.m. that two explosive devices were timed to go off at the stations at 3.40 p.m.

An explosive device was discovered in a backpack outside the entrance of the Labor Ministry on Stadiou street, central Athens early on Monday, after an anonymous call to Efymerida ton Syntakton newspaper at 1.20 a.m. warned that a bomb would go off after 40 minutes.

Bomb disposal experts were called to the scene and subsequently detonated the device in three controlled explosions.

A bomb threat caused evacuation of citizens, magistrates and judicial officials from the Palace of Justice in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia on Monday.

Around 12:30 EET an anonymous signal was submitted, informing of an explosive device planted in the building, private bTV station informs.

Turkish scientists on July 6 unveiled an unmanned off-road vehicle developed for tasks such as border patrols and bomb disposal.

Developed by a team at Ankara's Middle East Technical University under Bu?ra Koku, the tractor-like vehicle can map its own route to avoid obstacles and is likely to see service with the Turkish armed forces.

Inflatable rings, splashing families and general activity make it hard to spot the young boy struggling to keep afloat and in danger of drowning. Luckily, the lifeguard on duty spotted him.

Drowning is not as people imagine with the victim usually unable to shout or wave for help. If not rescued somebody can drown within 20-60 seconds.