NATO bombs still scattered in Serbia

Nine years after NATO attacks on Serbia, many bombs have not been cleaned up, Vecernje Novosti writes. The Belgrade daily specifies today that some 2,300 hectares are still suspected of being contaminated with cluster bombs, while mine fields stretch on 150 hectares. NATO bombs still scattered in Serbia In addition, 60 aircraft bombs dropped by NATO planes have not been defused and "could go off at any moment". Serbia needs to spend some USD 35mn to clean the countryside of unexploded ordnance, and should donations – which make the job possible – arrive at the current pace, the operations will not be finished in the next ten years. Currently, Russian experts are working to demine the Nis airport. Director of the Mine Action Center Petar Mihajlovic told the newspaper he plans to travel to Moscow and propose to the Russian authorities to undertake the bomb clearance operation in all of Nis, and Sjenica in western Serbia, where estimates say NATO dropped bombs on some four million square meters of space. Experts believe that unexploded aircraft bombs are still on 43 locations in the country, some of them weighing as much as 930 kilograms, capable of burrowing their way 20 meters into the ground.

NATO bombs still scattered in Serbia

In addition, 60 aircraft bombs dropped by NATO planes have not been defused and "could go off at any moment".

Serbia needs to spend some USD 35mn to clean the countryside of unexploded ordnance, and should donations – which make the job possible – arrive at the current pace, the operations will not be finished in the next ten years.

Currently, Russian experts are working to demine the Niš airport. Director of the Mine Action Center Petar Mihajlović told the newspaper he plans to travel to Moscow and propose to the Russian authorities to undertake the bomb clearance operation in all of Niš, and Sjenica in western Serbia, where estimates say NATO dropped bombs on some four million square meters of space.

Experts believe that unexploded aircraft bombs are still on 43 locations in the country, some of them weighing as much as 930 kilograms, capable of burrowing their way 20 meters into the ground.