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100 unexploded bombs found in SW China city
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-08-08 11:54

More than 100 unexploded bombs and grenades were found in a construction site in this capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province on Saturday. No explosions were caused.

The explosives were found by a farmer Zhou Rongli when some 40 natives in Dawa Village in Wudang District collected them from a construction site and tried to sell to him as waste iron.

Zhou, who dealt with recycled metals, asked the people to put them down and immediately informed police. All the people at the scene were then evacuated at once.

The explosives were all badly rusted but some rings on the grenades could still be used and the gun powder in some bombs could be still ignited by lighters, said Zhou.

The ground has been closed off. The local police has begun to investigate into the whereabouts of these explosives and experts from the regional military area command have rush to the scene, said the source.



 
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