ANFO of Shijiazhuang, China, on 16 March 2001. A total of 108 people were killed, and 38 others injured when, within a short time, several ANFO bombs exploded near four apartment buildings. Improvised bombs made with agricultural-grade AN are less sensitive and less efficient than the explosive-grade variety. In November 2009, a ban on ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and calcium ammonium nitrate fertilizers was imposed in the former Malakand Division – comprising the Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Swat, Chitral and Malakand districts of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan – by the NWFP government, following reports that those chemicals
Improvised vehicle armour security forces: seven soldiers and two police constables. Between 1992 - 1994 they killed eight security forces. The last and ninth member to be killed was British soldier, bombardier Steven Restorick. In post-invasion Iraq, improvised vehicle armour is colloquially referred to as "Hillbilly armor", "farmer armor" or "hajji armor" by American troops. During the occupation that followed the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, insurgent forces deployed roadside bombs, RPG teams, and snipers with small arms to attack military vehicles on supply convoys and other known routes. To protect themselves from these threats, American troops began reinforcing their Humvees,