Sunday 17 and Monday 18 September 2017 the bomb squad of the Italian Army will intervene in the municipality of Legnago (VR) to defuse two dangerous remnants of war dating back to the Second World War.
The bombs, two US-made aircraft bombs weighing 1000 pounds each (454 Kg) with high explosive potential, had been accidentally discovered.
last spring in the riverbed of the Adige river (due to the drastic lowering of the water level due to the extraordinary drought that has hit the Veneto Region in the last few months) and promptly made safe by a team of specialists from the 8 ° regiment, genius, paratroopers sappers “Folgore ”Of Legnago (VR) with the support of
divers of the SDAI nucleus (Sminamento Difesa Antimezzi Insidiosi) of the Navy.
Decommissioning operations, coordinated by the prefecture of Verona and by Northern Operation Force Command of Padua, will start at 08: 30 after the evacuation of the population (around 10.000 residents) in the area considered to be at risk will be completed and will continue until the definitive blast of the ordnance and subsequent commissioning
area security.
To guarantee the maximum safety framework, in addition to the evacuation of the population, the Mantova-Monselice railway line in the Legnago-Monselice section will be closed.
the overflight of any aircraft up to the end of the requirement is forbidden over the entire operation area.
Already 200 are the reclamation interventions carried out by the bomb technicians of the "Folgore" Paratrooper Brigade since the beginning of the year in the six provinces of competence.
In the last ten years, the bomb technicians of the Army engineering departments have carried out around 30.000 reclamation interventions throughout the national territory.
