This morning the Army sappers, coming from the railway engineering regiment of Castel Maggiore (BO), completed the defusing operations of a war device found in the municipality of Cesena (FC) in the Ponte Abbadesse area. The device, an aircraft bomb weighing approximately 227 kg, still active in English manufacture, dating back to the Second World War, was found in poor conditions of conservation.
The reclamation operations, directed and coordinated by the prefecture of Forlì-Cesena and the northern operational forces command of the Padua Army, took place in three distinct phases during which a temporary protection structure was built on the discovery site for the mitigation of the effects due to a possible accidental explosion, the device was neutralized by removing the front trigger system; finally, the aircraft bomb was detonated in an area identified and prepared in such a way as to protect public safety.
To guarantee an adequate safety framework, during the removal operations of the trigger system, it was necessary to ban traffic on some roads adjacent to the area where the bomb was found and to evacuate around 300 inhabitants.
