Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Regnum] In Serbia, in the city of Nis, an unexploded bomb from the 1999 NATO bombing was discovered. 1.3 thousand residents were evacuated, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on April 21.
The bomb was found during excavation work in the residential area of Stevan Sindjelic.
“The operation to neutralize the bomb will be carried out by employees of the Department for the Destruction of Explosive Devices of the Emergency Sector of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, we are talking about an MK 84 aerial bomb weighing 1 ton with 430 kg of explosive,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs quoted the head of the sector, Luka Ceausic, who deployed an operational headquarters in Nis.
After the detonator is removed, the ammunition will be transported through blocked streets outside the city and destroyed in a controlled explosion.
In 1999, armed confrontation between the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian army and police led to the bombing of the Republic of Yugoslavia, then consisting of Serbia and Montenegro, by NATO forces. This happened without the approval of the UN Security Council and on the basis of allegations by Western countries about alleged ethnic cleansing by the authorities of the republic in the Kosovo autonomy. NATO airstrikes continued from March 24 to June 10. The city of Nis was a constant target of NATO aircraft with a record for the duration of the air raid of 57 days. During the bombing of Niš, 26 civilians, 22 military and nine policemen were killed, army and Ministry of Internal Affairs facilities, schools, hospitals, industrial facilities and public buildings, and residential buildings were damaged. In 2000, a local resident stumbled upon an unexploded cluster shell in the grass and died.
As Regnum reported, in February in St. Petersburg, during the construction of the Putilovskaya metro station, a shell from the Great Patriotic War was found. The work was urgently stopped, access to the construction site was closed and the emergency services were reported about the find. Before this, in early August, almost 200 artillery shells from the Great Patriotic War of 20 mm caliber were found in Moscow. They were discovered during excavation work near the railway tracks.
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