The war device found in via Alcide is a British-made Mk IV model aircraft bomb from the Second World War.
It weighs 4000 pounds or approximately 2000 kilos. Due to its typology, the defusing operation is configured as complex.
In the report prepared by engineer Andrea Celestini, appointed by the Municipality to prepare the evacuation plan, “the exceptional danger of the rare device designed to destroy, also through a seismic wave generated by the explosion, an urban area” is underlined. of several hectares. A possible explosion would have devastating effects on buildings.”
For these reasons, the despoilment of the bomb, which consists in the removal and blasting of the sensitive and dangerous components for handling and transport, will take place on site, in via Alcide De Gasperi.
Once this first phase is completed, which is estimated to take five hours, she will be taken to the Monte Romano range with an Army vehicle escorted by the traffic police and followed by a Red Cross ambulance.
The journey should take an hour and a half.
Once inside the range, the device will be emptied by manual water loading and the explosive material will be destroyed. For this second phase, an estimated time of approximately eight hours is required.
