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 artillery in the Syrian Civil War placed into the barrel and it is laid horizontally such as out the opening of a window. On launch, the otherwise unattached barrel flies backwards from the recoil of the mortar. In June 2015, video was posted showing a large compressed air cannon in Deraa operated by Ahrar al-Sham. New types of IRAMs including the Volcano IRAM and Elephant Rockets, are used during Syrian Civil War by rebels and government. According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as of December 2014, hell cannons are "wildly inaccurate" and have killed over 300 civilians, most of them in Aleppo. Improvised