Explosives engineering

A 250-kilogram WWII-era bomb found in the western city of Nova Gorica was successfully defused on 23 July, allowing the residents on the Slovenian and Italian sides of the border to return to their homes.

A 17-year-old student from Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was temporarily arrested last Tuesday for falsely reporting to the police that an explosive device had been placed in his high school.

The school, located in the district of Kalamaria, was evacuated and a bomb disposal unit arrived  to inspect the building.

Nearly 15,000 people were evacuated Monday night in the German city of Hanover due to a World War II aerial bomb disposal operation, BTA reported.

The 500-pound projectile was discovered on a construction site.

According to estimates, at the end of World War II, over 2 million bombs of different caliber were thrown over Hitler's Germany. 10-20% of them never exploded.

Explosives experts on Friday gave the all-clear after investigating a bomb threat at Parliament in downtown Athens.

An anonymous caller had phoned a news website on Friday morning, threatening that explosives were rigged to go off "inside and outside Parliament" and that "there will be victims."

Police on Friday morning shut down Parliament and cordoned off the area around it after a bomb threat was made by an anonymous caller.

The caller phoned the offices of the Zougla.gr news website, saying that explosive devices had been placed "inside and outside Parliament."

"There will be victims. Beware," the caller reportedly threatened.

Bomb disposal experts were called in on Thursday to examine a package that was intercepted by security at the ruling SYRIZA party's headquarters.

The package was intercepted after being put through an X-ray machine at the party's downtown Athens offices on Koumoundourou Square.

The ongoing police investigation into a failed bomb attack against a deputy prosecutor in Athens on Tuesday showed that the low-power explosive device was made up of a kilo of gunpowder.

As to the reason why the bomb didn't go off, police believe this may be due to a jamming of the detonation circuit, probably during its transportation on the motorcycle.

Isidoros Dogiakos, the Supreme Court deputy prosecutor who appears to have been the target of a failed bomb attack in the early hours on Tuesday, said that he has not been subjected to any threats or intimidation recently that could explain the incident.

Bomb disposal experts defused an explosive device placed outside the Athens home of a deputy prosecutor in the early hours of Tuesday after a warning was called in.

More than 20,000 people were evacuated in the Italian town of Fano on the Adriatic coast after an unexploded World War II missile was discovered during a construction project, Radio Television News reported.
 
Authorities evacuated people from all residential homes and public buildings, as well as from the local hospital.