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This is the second time explosives have been found on this Costa Blanca land
The National Police have located and neutralised 18 explosive devices from the Civil War that were buried in an old foundry in the Alicante town of Alcoy. When the discovery was made, specialists from the Explosives and NRBC Deactivation Unit of the Alicante Provincial Police Station (TEDAX-NRBQ) were dispatched to secure the site.
This is the second time that Civil War explosives have been found on this patch of land in recent years; on the last occasion, the team successfully dismantled a total of 85 Royal Regulatory Artefacts (ARRs).
The search of the foundry, which measures more than 8,000 square metres, posed serious challenges for the experts, not least of which was the fact that the dogs from the canine unit were unable to effectively sniff out explosive material of military origin, since the majority are made up of TNT. In addition, the land contained a large amount of other metallic elements in the subsoil which hampered the effects of metal detectors and the Civil War relics were all buried at varying depths.
However, shortly after the excavation began, the team managed to locate two mortar shells. After a subsequent inspection of the area, more ARRs continued to appear, up to a total of eighteen: seven mortar shells of different calibres, three artillery shells, a rifle grenade, a handle grenade, three hand grenades, a mortar grenade fuse, an aircraft bomb and another device that could not be identified due to its deterioration.
The police concluded that, based on the way the explosives were found, everything suggests that they must have been intentionally buried, most likely by workers from the old foundry.
🚩Localizados y neutralizados 18 artefactos explosivos ARR´s de la Guerra Civil en una antigua fundición de la localidad alicantina de #Alcoy https://t.co/Cl7wXmqhrr#SomosTuPolicía pic.twitter.com/j1gu6MbG18
— Policía Nacional (@policia) January 26, 2022
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