{"id":36372,"date":"2024-09-22T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/300-kilo-wwi-bomb-removed-in-belgrade\/22\/09\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-09-22T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T17:07:31","slug":"300-kilo-wwi-bomb-removed-in-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/300-kilo-wwi-bomb-removed-in-belgrade\/22\/09\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"300-kilo WWI bomb removed in Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A century-old artillery round weighing nearly 300 kilogrammes (660 pounds), was safely removed on Sunday from a construction site near the Serbian Parliament in Belgrade, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 305mm &#8220;Morser M.11&#8221; howitzer shell, found last Wednesday, was used by the Austro-Hungarian army during the July 1914 siege of the capital during World War I, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic ahead of the removal operation.<\/p>\n<p>Police had ordered nearby residents to remove their vehicles from the area and urged them to be cautious, advising to leave homes if possible.<\/p>\n<p>The shell was sent to a sandy terrain about 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Belgrade, where it was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Several bombs left over from previous wars have been found in Serbia, but they have been removed without causing explosions.<\/p>\n<p>In Nis, southern Serbia, a large bomb from the 1999 NATO bombing was discovered in April, while in 2021, a 242-kilogramme bomb from WWII was removed from a construction site in a Belgrade suburb.<\/p>\n<p>oz\/js<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/300-kilo-wwi-bomb-removed-163816607.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century-old artillery round weighing nearly 300 kilogrammes (660 pounds), was safely removed on Sunday from a construction site near the Serbian<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/300-kilo-wwi-bomb-removed-in-belgrade\/22\/09\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}