Goettingen, Germany Construction workers building a sports stadium came across a large bomb buried nearly 18 feet below the ground surface. The construction workers ceased operations and called the police who responded and evacuated nearly 7,000 residents from the surrounding area. A team of experienced military engineers was called in to handle the UXO identified as a WWII era 500kg bomb.

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia An explosion occurred at an earthen explosives storage magazine located in the McClintic Wildlife Management area. The WWII bunker where the explosion occurred is owned by the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) but is being leased to a commercial business for the storage of gun powder. Authorities from the State Fire Marshal Office and the ATF are conducting an investigation to determine the exact cause of the explosion. Authorities will determine whether aging or deteriorating explosives played a role in the explosion. No injuries were reported.

Huntsville, Alabama An explosion at a demolition test site on Redstone Arsenal sent four workers to the hospital. The explosion was reported as "chemical explosion" but the Army did not release the types of chemicals involved in the incident. One of injured was sent to a Birmingham hospital and other three to Huntsville Memorial. An emergency command center has been established to support the investigation into the incident. The exact cause of the explosion has not yet been determined.

Bismarck, North Dakota An airman based out of Minot Air Force Base died as a result of a training accident involving munitions. The airman whose name has been released, was reportedly struck in the head by an inert training missile during a training exercise. The accident occurred around midnight and the airman passed away the following morning. The accident is under investigation.

Ulyanovsk Province, Russia What was supposed to a routine ammunition disposal operation turned out to be a deadly catastrophe that caused significant damage to a Russian Naval Ammunition Depot. In an unforeseen chain of events, an ammunition disposal operational caused a massive fire and sympathetic detonations of various munitions being stored at the facility. This caused a chain reaction which caused dozens of other munitions to detonate. Over 3,000 residents living near the ammunition depot located in western Russia were evacuated as firefighters and military personnel fought to bring the blaze under control.

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Ogden, Utah An F-16 fighter pilot was forced to jettison his external fuel tanks and ordnance payload shortly after taking off from Hill AFB. The munitions payload dropped included at least one 500 bomb MK 82 series bomb (complete listing of payload dropped has not been released). The munitions were dropped onto an uninhabited area of the installation approximately a half-mile from Interstate 15.

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Phu Yen, Vietnam Four people were killed when a UXO item being dismantled for scrap metal in their home exploded. The two people working on the UXO (a man and his wife) and their 8-year old daughter along with a neighbor were killed as a result. The couple's 3-year old son was seriously injured in the blast but is expected to survive. The type of UXO involved in the accident was not reported.

McArthur, Ohio Explosives investigators from the ATF and State Fire Marshall's office have narrowed down the cause of Tuesdays blast that injured 10 workers at the Austin Powder Red Diamond explosives manufacturing plant. The investigation revealed that a partially filled spool of detonating cord exploded when the cord broke during the manufacturing process.

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Vladivostock, Russia A Russian warship taking part in rehearsals for the upcoming annual Navy Day holiday accidentally fired a projectile into the courtyard of an apartment building. Luckily for the residents of the apartment building, the projectile was inert and did not contain a high explosive main charge. The impact of the rocket-assisted projectile did cause several windows to shatter in the nine story apartment building.

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Lusby, Maryland A state SWAT Team were conducting small arms training on a range located approximately .5 miles from the nuclear reactor towers on the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant when five bullets strayed from the range. No injuries were reported as the bullets hit two separate buildings and an unoccupied vehicle located thousands of feet from the range. One of the five bullets hit a window in a building causing one of its panes to shatter.

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