A single-stage Soviet aerial bomb was found in the Danube in the center of Budapest, the explosive body will be removed on Monday, September 12, the communication officer of the fire engineer regiment of the Hungarian Defense Forces informed MTI on Thursday.
Senior Lieutenant Milán Gajdos announced that the fire-fighting divers of the Metropolitan Disaster Management Directorate found the explosive device during their practice dive in the Danube in the section of the capital river between the Erzsébet Bridge and the Chain Bridge.
Fire-fighting divers found that a Soviet-made aerial bomb from the Second World War, weighing one hundred kilograms, was lying dormant in the river bed, with activated detonators.
In order to safely remove and defuse the explosive device, the area will be closed in a radius of about four hundred meters on the morning of September 12, he said.
Source: MTI
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