Authorities say the 1,000-kilogram unexploded explosive was found in a construction zone in Nis.
April 21 () –
Serbian authorities confirmed this Sunday the removal of an unexploded bomb launched by NATO against the city of Nis (southeast) during the war in the country, a process that has led to the safety evacuation of more than 1,300 residents in the town. .
Luka Causic, head of the Department of Emergency Situations of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, has indicated that the bomb, weighing about a thousand kilograms and with an explosive charge of 430 kilograms, has been removed from the area and will be deactivated soon in a ” safe place”.
“The aerial bomb has been successfully neutralized and removed from the construction zone. The evacuated citizens can safely return to their homes,” Causic said, according to a statement published by the Serbian Ministry of the Interior through its website. Web.
According to information collected by the Serbian newspaper 'Novosti', 1,361 residents of 600 apartments located in the Stevan Sindelic area had been evacuated early in the day so that the authorities could carry out the removal work.
The bomb would have been dropped by NATO during the bombing campaign against Serbia during the war in Kosovo, which turned 25 years old at the end of March. The campaign, which lasted about 80 days in 1999, was considered a liberation operation by Pristina and an extermination campaign by Serbia.
