A 1,000 kg NATO bomb was pulled out from underground in Serbia after 25 years

A 1,000 kg NATO bomb was pulled out from underground in Serbia after 25 years

Specialists in Serbia today, Sunday, April 21 (2nd Thursday), pulled out a 1,000 kg NATO bomb from underground after 25 years.

The removal of this bomb from the Nis area in southern Serbia, where construction work was going on, caused thousands of residents to be evacuated from the area.

Luka Kausic, an official of the Serbian Ministry of Interior, said that the bomb would be transported to a safe place and destroyed.

He added that 13,000 local residents would be moved to other areas if the bomb was pulled out.

The police, fire and health teams were also present in the place to take action in case of any kind of incident.

On March 24, 1999, NATO began bombing Serbia without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, which continued for 78 days.

The goal of NATO’s attack was to end the bloody repression of the Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic against Albanian separatists in Kosovo.

One of the bloodiest events happened on the 7th of March 1999 in Nice, where more than ten people were killed during the bombing of a crowded market. Cluster bombs were used in that attack, and later that attack was called a “major mistake”.

However, on May 12, 1999, NATO once again used cluster bombs on the city, killing 11 civilians.

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