A 30-kilo unexploded flying bomb has been found in a field near Kostrzyn, western Poland, the day before the site will be full of thousands of music fans for the Polish ‘Woodstock’ festival.
Police also found two shells and two hand grenades dating back to WW II at a camp site while they were digging a fire ditch in preparation for the annual festival, which this year will be staring Krakow-based violinist Nigel Kennedy and Papa Roach.
“[The unexploded bombs] are not dangerous for the participants of the 16th Woodstock festival,” assures Lieutenant Joanna Nowakowska from the 11th Division of the Armoured Cavalry.
“The discovery itself is not surprising because Kostrzyn was one of WW II’s battlefields. What’s surprising is young people’s reaction to the bombs – they did not try to touch the shells or move them somewhere else,” a relieved Sergeant Tomasz Andrzejak told the PAP news agency.
Sappers are continuing, Thursday, to search the festival site for further WW II-era bombs which they will detonate at a nearby military exercise field.
The 16th Woodstock festival kicks off on Friday and will last until Sunday. (pg/mg)
Thenews.pl |
