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
Barrel bombs in Palestine and Israel Irgun merged into the newly formed Israeli Defense Force. Harry Levin, a Zionist of British background, described one incident in Jerusalem in which barrel bombs were rolled down the streets while loudspeakers broadcast 'horror sounds': Barrel bombs were used by the Israeli Air Force. On July 15–16, 1948, the Israeli Air Force dropped barrel bombs on the town of Saffuriyya during Operation Dekel. Historian Nafez Nazzal quotes one of the villagers, the quartermaster of the Saffuriyya militia, describing the attack: Barrel bombs in Palestine and Israel Barrel bombs were used in Palestine and Israel during 1947–48. They were first used