Security personnel and rescue teams reached the site soon after the blast and launched relief and investigative operations. Officials cordoned off the area to preserve evidence and to secure the site while investigators and bomb‑disposal teams examined the wreckage.

Blast occurs near Defence Ministry building in Bab Sharqi district of the capital.

A security incident is underway following the incident in the early hours of Sunday morning in the town outside Belfast.

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like to experience a nuclear bomb explosion up close.

A police bomb squad has carried out a controlled explosion in a Scottish town after a suspected hand grenade was found in a garden. Officers were sent to the property in the Broadloan area of Renfrew at 7.