Gatineau, Canada Police responded to an anonymous call about military munitions stored in a vacant apartment building. Police responded to find a small cache of military-grade artillery shells. Canadian Forces EOD specialists were called in to safely remove and dispose of the munitions. The specific types of munitions involves was not reported. Authorities are investigating the incident to determine where the munitions originated from and who stored them in the vacant building.

Fort Walton Beach, Florida The 2104 EOD Memorial Weekend will be held April 30 - May 3. The event-filled weekend will include the Global EOD Conference and Exhibition, a golf tournament, and EOD Memorial Ball as well as many other events.

To download the flyer or register visit http://www.eodwarriorfoundation.org/events/events/view/45. For questions please contact Melissa Tackitt at Melissa@eodwarriorfoundation.org.

West Cornwall, United Kingdom A Bomb disposal unit detonated a grenade found by a walker on Gwithian beach. The man notified the Coastguard after finding the ordnance, but instead of waiting for authorities to arrive, picked up the grenade and placed it under sandbags near the dunes.

A spokesman from Falmouth Coastguard said personnel from the Southern Dive Unit at Devonport Naval Base in Plymouth were called in to detonate the grenade safely. He reminded citizens not to pick up suspect ordnance. Luckily the walker was not injured in the moving of the grenade, but such actions are ill-advised.

Chon Buri, Thailand A fisherman caught more than he was bargaining for in the Phanat Nikhom district when his net yielded not fish, but over 50 munition items, one AK assault rifle, and a magazine of AK bullets.

The items, marked with Thai registration codes. It is unknown who dumped the munitions or when they were dumped into the pond. However, the munitions were in reportedly in operational condition which indicates that they were not submerged for a long period of time.

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Flanders, Belgium An accidental explosion of a WWI-Era UXO has killed two workers and injured two more at a construction site. The men were clearing an area by a canal on an industrial site when the UXO detonated without warning.

One was killed at the scene while a second died in hospital. A third man was in a critical condition from his injuries.

The site has been closed off as explosive experts examine the area. It is common for ordnance items to be found in the area. Flanders was shelled by German forces throughout WWI, and it is believed that thousands of explosives remain buried in the area.

Borehamwood, United Kingdom Ordnance specialists have determined that a bomb found near Elstree Studios was not a prop left over from a WWI movie filmed there as originally thought, but an actual live WWII munition.

The bomb, specific type not reported, was uncovered from a mound behind the studio. The UXO was disposed of by technicians through a controlled explosion.

Sharon, Connecticut In response to reports of a deceased man in a northwest Connecticut home, police found more than just the deceased's body. Authorities removed a stockpile of military firearms, grenades, and a flamethrower, as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition.

According to reports, state police responded to the home of George Laning in Sharon after a friend found him dead. The 59-year-old is believed to have died of unspecified natural causes days earlier.

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Conway, South Carolina When Horry County Museum director Walter Hill found what he believed to be part of a detonator lodged in an old cannonball at the museum, his hopes of displaying the piece in the museum went up in smoke  literally.

While cleaning the Civil War-era cannonball, Hill encountered an obstruction. After having it x-rayed, it was deemed live. EOD from Shaw Air Force Base were called in to dispose of the round by controlled detonation at the Conway city police shooting range.

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Red Lodge, Montana Federal officials arrested a Wyoming man in connection with the theft of explosives last April from a U.S. Forest Service bunker. Thirty-two-year-old Budd James Nesius was taken into custody in Grand Junction, Colorado on charges of possession of stolen explosives.

The arrest was made in connection with a incident in which a shed was broken into and 559 pounds of explosives, used for a wide range of Forest Service duties, was stolen. The ATF announced in November that it had recovered the explosives including emulsion-type explosives, cast boosters and detonating cord but the suspect was still on the run.

ATF officials requested that the Montana Marshal Service help track down Nesius. When the two agencies learned he had a drug-related charge out of Grand Junction, Colorado, agents went to his scheduled hearing and took him into custody without incident on a federal warrant.

Emerald Isle, North Carolina Clearance operations are scheduled to begin later this month to remove UXO and munition debris from a small island in Bogue Sound known as Bomb Target 2 (BT) a.k.a. Wood Island. The island was very active during the 1940s and 1950s to train military pilots. The island was last used for munitions related training in 1972. The island is now part of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point's Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP).

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