North : two hand grenades were still active found on a beach cleared of mines in an emergency

The warning was issued in the late afternoon on Saturday from the city administration, after finding grenades in the “Pred obale” level. Two hand grenades, d

The warning was issued in the late afternoon on Saturday from the city administration, after finding grenades in the “Pred obale” level.

Two hand grenades, rusted but still “active”, were found on Zuydcoote Beach (North) on Saturday and destroyed “in an emergency” by clean-up divers, in an area “frequented by the population”, the Maritime Prefecture said.

The warning was issued at the end of the afternoon by the city council, after the discovery of shells in the foreshore, the area of ​​the coast alternately covered and uncovered by the sea depending on the tide, according to a statement from the prefecture of the English Channel and the North Sea.

due to “the danger of an actual cartridge that is still active, which is located (…) in a densely populated area”, the group of divers (GPD) of the Channel and the maritime authorities decide to intervene “in an emergency”.

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GPD sailors were thus made “by helicopter, in order to intervene (…) before night falls and the tide is high”, says the prefecture.

Part of the Cherbourg Naval Base, the team is deposited on the beach at 19:15 and then continues until 19H49 to destroy shells.

Date of update: June 21, 2020, 3:58 p.m

Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: newstars.edu.vn

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