Explosive material

A pile of explosives, 180 detonators and around 40 grenades were stolen from an army base in the southern French town of Miramas, a source close to investigations said on July 7. 

The lives of more than five million Syrians, including two million children, are at risk from explosive weapons used in the conflict, a non-governmental organisation said on May 12.

Some 150 kilos of TNT supported by ammonium nitrate were found on May 1 embedded in the Bingöl highway in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r.

A large explosive device was found outside an apartment block in Metamorphosi, northern Athens, on Friday before it went off.

Explosives had been placed in a 30-liter container, which also contained three detonators, according to police who are examining the bomb for clues.

Officers did not provide further details about the potential victim or motives for the attack.

Buzau police have discovered a man who was offering for sale over 1,300 firecrackers, the pyrotechnic materials being confiscated and the man placed under criminal investigation for infringing the explosive materials regime, a press release of the Romanian General Police Inspectorate (IGPR) remitted on Saturday to AGERPRES informs.

Coast guard officers on the Aegean island of Naxos on Thursday intercepted a 53-year-old man as he was trying to hand over a 25-kilogram package of explosives to the captain of a professional fishing boat.

Officers spotted the man getting out of a car in the southern port of Volaka and approaching the edge of the pier with the package.

Iliyan Mihaylov, Mayor of the northwestern village of Gorni Lom, which was stricken by a deadly explosion at a privately-owned explosives plant, insisted that the factory had to keep functioning due to the staggering unemployment in the area.

Innocent lives were lost due to a blatant non-compliance with prescriptions and rules established by state institutions on how to work with explosive materials, Bulgaria's President said Thursday.

Rosen Plevneliev made his first public comments after Wednesday's huge blast at the Midzhur explosives plant which officials say took the lives of fifteen people who were inside.

An investigation by the Greek counter-terrorist unit was under way in Athens on Thursday after an envelope containing an explosive device was discovered in the mail room of the Athens Stock Exchange on Thursday morning.

Bomb disposal experts were called to the scene and destroyed the parcel in a controlled explosion, authorities said.

The blast at an explosives factory near the northwestern village of Gorni Lom has left two hydropower plants without electricity.

Power distributor CEZ has informed that its workers have no access to the facilities which suffered the breakdown because fire safety experts expect secondary blasts at the site.