BELGRADE WATERFRONT EVACUATED: American bomb weighing half a ton found, here's what residents MUST do!
Members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Emergency Situations Sector, will on Sunday, December 28, in the early hours of the morning, remove, transport and destroy a US-made AN-M44 aerial bomb left over from the Second World War that was found in Belgrade Waterfront, at a construction site in Nikolaja Kravcova Street.
It is a bomb weighing a total of about 470 kilograms, with an explosive charge of approximately 250 kilograms, which was dropped during the Allied bombing of German positions in 1944.
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Members of the Emergency Situations Sector previously performed a detailed investigation to determine the condition of this explosive device, in order to create safe conditions for its removal and controlled destruction.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) is urging citizens who live in the immediate vicinity of the location, close to the Galerija Belgrade shopping mall and in parts of these streets: Nikolaja Kravcova, Vozda Djordja Stratimirovica, Luke Celovica Trebinjca, Hercegovacka (the section between Nikolaja Kravcova and Vozda Djordja Stratimirovica), as well as those in the Vudroa Vilsona (Woodrow Wilson) Boulevard (from the corner with Vozda Djordja Stratimirovica) - in the morning of Sunday, December 28, from 06:00 to 09:00 - leave their apartments if they are able.
Otherwise, it is recommended that citizens open their windows, lower the blinds and move away from the windows.
Also, citizens who live in Nikolaja Kravcova Street and Vudroa Vilsona Boulevard near Galerija Belgrade are asked to move their parked vehicles to other locations no later than Saturday, December 27, by 22:00.
If they fail to do so, their vehicles will be moved to parking lots in Slavija and Staro Sajmiste.
The location where the aerial bomb was found is currently secured around the clock by members of the Belgrade police.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is appealing to the citizens to fully respect instructions and orders issued the competent services and to follow relevant information, so that this procedure can be carried out safely, in a controlled manner, and in the shortest time possible.
(Telegraf.rs)