Police, firefighters and medical groups have been current to make sure it was transported safely

Nis:

Consultants on Sunday eliminated a bomb left over in a southern Serbian metropolis from the 1999 NATO bombing of the nation, prompting the evacuation of greater than a thousand residents, officers mentioned.

The 1,000-kilo (2,200-pound) bomb was efficiently faraway from a development website within the neighbourhood of Nis, an inside ministry official mentioned.

A photograph reveals a development website in Nis, southern Serbia, after the elimination of an unexploded bomb from the 1999 NATO bombing
Photograph Credit score: AFP

“It’s being transported to a secure location the place it is going to be destroyed”, official Luka Causic instructed reporters.

Earlier than the elimination of the bomb, 1,300 residents of the world the place it was discovered have been evacuated for his or her security, he added.

Cops supervise the evacuation of residents from a neighborhood in Nis
Photograph Credit score: AFP

Police, firefighters and medical groups have been current to make sure it was transported safely.

The MK-84 bomb has an explosive cost of 430 kilograms, Causic mentioned.

NATO’s bombing of Serbia started on March 24, 1999, with out the approval of the UN Safety Council, and lasted 78 days.

It aimed to finish Serbian chief Slobodan Milosevic’s bloody crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.

One of many bloodiest incidents throughout the marketing campaign struck in Nis on Might 7, 1999. Greater than a dozen individuals have been killed when NATO planes dropped cluster bombs on a crowded central out of doors market. The incident was later described as a “blunder”.

The town was bombed once more on Might 12 that 12 months with cluster bombs, resulting in the deaths of 11 civilians.

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