Workers of the Chinese company CRBC, who were engaged in arranging the bed of the Tara River, for the purposes of highway construction, found an aerial bomb weighing 453 kg, which has an explosive charge of 172 kg.
They notified the Directorate for Protection and Rescue of the Ministry of Interior about this via OKC 112.
"The field part of this very complex operation lasted four working days. On October 4, 2021, the officers of the Directorate for Protection and Rescue - Directorate for Operational Affairs successfully removed the lighter and the booster. We note that due to the condition in which the lighter was located, it was very it was risky to move the aerial bomb, and for this reason it was necessary to disarm the bomb on the spot. After the removal of the igniter and booster, they were destroyed by a controlled explosion in the immediate vicinity of the place of discovery," announced the Directorate for Protection and Rescue of the MUP.
They added that after removing the lighter, the bomb was transported to temporary storage.
"The activity of removing the igniter and extracting the booster from the aerial bomb was directly carried out by the officers of the UXO department Vladan Burić and Milovan Joksimović. The employees of the UXO department owe a special thanks to the employees of DOO Keker - Kolašin and CRBC for their selfless help in engaging machinery and personnel." in the statement.
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