Last night the Army blasters from the railway engineering regiment of Castel Maggiore (Bo) and the divers of the Diving Operations Group of the Navy Command and Submarine (COMSUBIN) of the Navy have neutralized and removed, with a very delicate and particularly difficult intervention, a war device of the Second World War found during the works in progress on the waterfront of Saxony in Fano.
The bomb was found in the evening in an open construction site for the extension work of the seafarers and was accidentally triggered during the excavations. Army bombs in coordination with the divers of the Diving Operations Group of the COMSUBIN of the Navy, they have identified and recognized the bomb, that is a bomb of British aircraft MK6 from 500 pounds. The particular triggering device provides a delay of armament included between the 6 and the 144 hours and, for this reason, the remediation intervention represented a serious danger for the nearby hospital of Fano impossible to completely evacuate.
The prefecture of Pesaro and Urbino arranged and coordinated the emergency remediation intervention which provided for a horizontal clearance radius of 1.816 meters, 1.392 meters for the vertical one and 2.500 meters for the stretch of water in front of the place of discovery. These safety criteria required the Adriatic Railway to be blocked and about 23.000 people to be evacuated through the coordination of the police forces supported by personnel from the 28th regiment of the Italian Army. However, since the local hospital could not be evacuated, the reclamation intervention was been declared of utmost urgency in order to protect the health of patients and staff of the health facility.
After a long, meticulous and exhausting nocturnal activity, the bomb squads of the Army carried out the harness of the bomb, the dangerous removal and subsequent delivery to the Navy personnel who provided for the transport away from the coast in the open sea, at a distance of safety from any installation or naval route. There, the Navy divers will wait the 144 hours foreseen by the pyric delay in the construction of the bomb before proceeding to its destruction. This intervention will obviously be carried out by implementing all consolidated techniques and measures aimed at preserving the marine ecosystem.
