Workers find Second World War bomb in downtown Belgrade

A Second World War bomb was found and removed from a construction site in Belgrade on Saturday, MUP Emergency Sector chief Predrag Marić has said.

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Monday, 09.12.2013.

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BELGRADE A Second World War bomb was found and removed from a construction site in Belgrade on Saturday, MUP Emergency Sector chief Predrag Maric has said. He told Tanjug that the device was found in Budimska Street. Workers find Second World War bomb in downtown Belgrade Earlier, Serbia's Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic visited the location to say that the bomb will be transported to the military training ground in Nikinci, northern Serbia, and destroyed there. Dacic said it was a bomb dropped from a German plane, and that it weighed over one ton. The bomb was found by construction workers during excavation works at the depth of six-meters. The building next to the construction site was evacuated soon and police teams arrived there immediately. The 24sata.rs website writes today than "neither the police nor the military know how many explosive devices remain from the past wars, and in which locations." Belgrade, which was targeted on numerous occasions in the First and Second World Wars, most recently came under bombardment of NATO in 1999. From that war only one unexploded bomb remains. It weighs 900 kilograms and contains 420 kilograms of explosives, and is located in the municipality of Zvezdara. But across the rest of Serbia, there are still some 150 locations where the authorities suspect NATO dropped bombs that did not explode. Last year, a 500-kg device was found in Barajevo, near Belgrade. (Tanjug) B92 Tanjug

Workers find Second World War bomb in downtown Belgrade

Earlier, Serbia's Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić visited the location to say that the bomb will be transported to the military training ground in Nikinci, northern Serbia, and destroyed there.

Dačić said it was a bomb dropped from a German plane, and that it weighed over one ton.

The bomb was found by construction workers during excavation works at the depth of six-meters. The building next to the construction site was evacuated soon and police teams arrived there immediately.

The 24sata.rs website writes today than "neither the police nor the military know how many explosive devices remain from the past wars, and in which locations."

Belgrade, which was targeted on numerous occasions in the First and Second World Wars, most recently came under bombardment of NATO in 1999.

From that war only one unexploded bomb remains. It weighs 900 kilograms and contains 420 kilograms of explosives, and is located in the municipality of Zvezdara. But across the rest of Serbia, there are still some 150 locations where the authorities suspect NATO dropped bombs that did not explode.

Last year, a 500-kg device was found in Barajevo, near Belgrade.

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