Bomb disposal technicians work next Sunday for the disengagement of three bombs in Genoa and in the provinces of Rome and Avellino

(To Army Majority State)
18/09/15

A clean-up operation will be conducted by the bomb disposal personnel of the 6 ° Genio Pionieri Regiment of Rome. The device was found at a construction site in Albano Laziale, in the Cecchina area.

The eviction activity, coordinated by the prefecture of Rome, will involve the evacuation of about 3.000 people residing within 400 meters from the place where the bomb was found, the blasting will take place in a quarry at Ciampino.

On the same day, the reclamation of an aircraft bomb dating back to the Second World War will take place, found a few days ago in Calata Bettolo, near the port of Genoa, by the bomb squads of the 32nd Engineers Regiment of Turin. The bomb, a US AN-M64 A1 weighing 226 kilograms, 124 of which of explosives, is of the same type as that found in Lazio.

The discomforts for the Ligurian capital will in any case be reduced, thanks to the construction of a work to contain the shock wave and the splinters which made it possible to reduce the area considered dangerous to 300 meters.

In addition to Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi (AV), where a 113 kilogram British-made aircraft bomb was found, upon activation of the Prefecture of Avellino, the bomb squads of the Army, effective at the 21st Engineers Regiment of Caserta will provide to neutralize the bomb which will then be destroyed at the Cyprian quarry.