A Manhattan skyscraper has been evacuated as the NYPD investigates a suspicious package in the building. See important update below Police say a bomb squad is now on the scene at the Two World Financial Center, which is across the street from One World Trade Center, the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. [...]

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Australian police are frantically attempting to defuse a bomb that’s been strapped to around the neck of an 18-year-old girl in a wealthy neighborhood of Sydney. The situation is a “very serious and sensitive matter,” says New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Mark Murdoch. Police don’t yet know exactly how the “collar bomb” got strapped [...]

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Ever wonder what happens to all those illegal fireworks that get confiscated by the police department? Turns out they all get destroyed by the bomb squad. In what has to be the most enjoyable job on the planet, the NYPD bomb squad lays waste to 5,000 lbs. of confiscated fireworks just before the 4th of [...]

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School was almost out permanently in Uganda, where a local mine awareness team was shocked to find one school that was using an unexploded bomb as a school bell. They made the discovery after stopping by to teach children how to spot bombs. The Anti-Mine Network noticed that teachers were banging on the unexploded bomb [...]

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Apparently, it’s not safe to relax just yet. Another suspicious package has “ignited” at a postal facility in Washington D.C. Police say one or two packages ignited at a post office on V Street in Northeast D.C. just after 3 p.m. EST on Friday afternoon. This incident occurs just one day after two incendiary devices [...]

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It looks as though there have been 2 explosions right here in Maryland, both occurring at Maryland state government buildings in Anne Arundel County. The packages exploded at the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) building near BWI Thurgood Marshall International Airport and the Jeffrey Building near the state house in Annapolis. The Jeffrey Building houses [...]

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Ohio State University has evacuated four on-campus buildings, including the school’s main library, due to a bomb threat that was e-mailed to the FBI. FBI spokesperson Michael Brooks says the threat came into the bureau’s Washington headquarters on Tuesday morning. Shortly before 8:30 a.m. EST, campus police were notified that the threats involved the William [...]

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A wild Florida bank robbery and hostage situation is unfolding today as a bank teller who had been abducted from his home and strapped to an explosive device freed himself from the possible bomb. The device, however, was still inside the Bank of America in Coral Gables. An FBI spokesperson says that everyone has now [...]

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The bomb squad had to be called in on Wednesday to detonate a “suspicious” toy pony after it was found abandoned near an elementary school in Florida. The FurReal pony was thought to be a possible explosive device after someone called police to report it. A robot inspected the toy before the bomb squad blew [...]

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A bomb squad was summoned to Oprah Winfrey’s TV studio on Friday afternoon following reports of a suspicious package. Chicago Bomb and Arson authorities descended upon Harpo Studios at about 6:20am EDT after one employee found a strange backpack with wires protruding from it resting in a flower bed. Officials used “remote diagnostics” to analyze [...]

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