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Solomon Islands: Men working for WW2 bomb clearing agency die in explosion
21/09/2020

Solomon Islands: Men working for WW2 bomb clearing agency die in explosion

The men were working to help dispose of the many unexploded World War Two bombs on the islands.

Hong Kong construction industry gets off lightly once again:
17/07/2020

Hong Kong construction industry gets off lightly once again:

Unexploded device unearthed on construction site for pedestrian tunnel believed to be left over from second world war. Workers ordered to evacuate and train services suspended, restarting on Friday.

Lucky again in HK:
01/06/2020

Lucky again in HK:

Around 50 people were evacuated from around a Tseung Kwan O temporary landfill site, called a fill bank, after a World War II Japanese military shell was discovered and detonated there.Officers from t...

Engineer killed after old bomb he tried to cut open explodes - Thanks to Andre Mazur of Fugro Hong Kong for forwarding t...
06/03/2020

Engineer killed after old bomb he tried to cut open explodes - Thanks to Andre Mazur of Fugro Hong Kong for forwarding this: a catastrophe resulting from a poor and uninformed assessment made by a civil engineer. This was in the Philippines but interestingly, in Hong Kong civil engineers constantly reject the need for professional UXO risk management:

Usually, police or military explosive ordnance disposal teams are called in to dispose of unexploded ordnance that are sometimes found in construction sites.

The Hong Kong construction industry dodges another bullet. Just a fleeting report in the SCMP. I guess the press will be...
02/03/2020

The Hong Kong construction industry dodges another bullet. Just a fleeting report in the SCMP. I guess the press will be more interested when there's death and destruction to report:

Police clear area in Happy Valley and evacuate 300 hotel guests and temple worshippers.

Yep, sometimes they do that ...
30/06/2019

Yep, sometimes they do that ...

The bomb went off in the early hours of Sunday, startling nearby residents.

British Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong - Breakfast Briefing 5 March 2019:
18/02/2019

British Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong - Breakfast Briefing 5 March 2019:

Several items of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), ranging from hand gr***des to 2,000lb aircraft bombs, are found in Hong Kong, often on construction sites, every year. This was dramatically brought to public attention with the discovery in January and February 2018 of two large aircraft bombs within thre...

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