World War I bomb defused near parliament in Serbia
A century-old bomb has been defused near the parliament building in Belgrade, Serbia, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic, whose words the ministry cited on Facebook (a social network banned in Russia; belongs to the Meta corporation, which is recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation and banned).
The bomb was accidentally discovered by construction workers during work in the city center. They are building a garage near the seat of the country’s National Assembly (Narodnaya Skupshtina). Construction equipment came across the munition at a depth of eight meters. The dangerous area was cordoned off, the shell was removed and taken to the Deliblatsky Sands, where it was destroyed.
The weight of the discovered bomb reached more than 280 kilograms, its caliber was 305 millimeters. It is noted that the shell was used by the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War.
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Dacic drew attention to the fact that since the beginning of 2024, Interior Ministry officers have defused six aerial bombs that remained in Serbia after the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Two of them weighed more than a ton.
Earlier it was reported that in the UK, a 43-year-old woman fished a 130-year-old gun out of a river using a magnet. Police have launched an investigation to find out who owned the gun and how it ended up at the bottom of the river.
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