TRIPwire, 25 January 2023

TRIPwire, 25 January 2023
On 24 January 2023, Bingiriya Police stopped a truck at a checkpoint in Vilattawa and discovered IEDs, described as 89 plastic pipes filled with blasting gelatin, and bomb-making material (BMM), including 21 80-foot-long detonating cords and 900 electric detonators, hidden in a secret compartment built inside the truck. Two suspects, a 33-year-old and a 34-year-old, were arrested. The investigation is ongoing.

TRIPwire, 24 January 2023
On 23 January 2023, at approximately 0200 hours local time, 12 unidentified suspects on 6 motorcycles threw 3 improvised incendiary devices (IIDs), described as Molotov cocktails, at the headquarters of a digital newspaper in Valera in Trujillo State. No further device details have been released. Two of the IIDs hit the building causing damage to the building facade, while the third IID hit the ground, but no injuries were reported. The incident remains under investigation.

TRIPwire, 23 January 2023
On 23 January 2023, at approximately 0415 hours local time, local police responded to a building in Brasschaat after an explosive device was functioned at the building door, damaging the door. According to authorities, “heavy pyrotechnics were probably used,” but no further device details have been released. Police arrested a 19-year-old male from Maasmechelen and an 18-year-old Dutch woman. The incident remains under investigation.

TRIPwire, 20 January 2023
On 19 January 2023, Mansfield Fire Department crews and Ashland County Sheriff's Department Bomb Squad technicians responded to a construction company on East Longview Avenue after an employee discovered commercial explosives, labeled as “cartridged water gel explosive,” while cleaning out a storage locker. Bomb squad technicians removed about 10 sticks of the explosives to be rendered safe with the assistance of the Ashland Fire Department.