They will be among the sSeven thousand to eight thousand people will be evacuated from their homes in Foggia on Sunday 2 June to allow the operations of clearance of the Second World War bomb found on a construction site in via Spalato, a neighborhood close to the train station. The removal of the device, an unexploded airplane bomb, will be carried out by the bomb disposal experts of the 11th Bomb Regiment of Foggia who, for a few days, have been working inside the construction site to make the entire area safe. To preserve public safety and ensure the correct conduct of operations, it was decided to proceed with the partial and temporary evacuation of the affected areawhich will include a radius of 430 meters from the place of discovery.
The “red zone” near the station
According to some estimates, which are still unofficial, between seven thousand and eight thousand people will have to abandon their homes that Sunday. A decision taken at the end of a series of meetings, which took place over the days, at the Prefecture of Foggia with all those involved. At the same time, the COC – Municipal Operations Center was established in the Municipality of Foggia, within which all the bodies and offices involved in the complex activity of planning the reclamation interventions and the evacuation of the population from the so-called “red zone” are located. and suspension of services. A decision, they let it be known from Municipality of Foggiataken «in accordance with current regulations and in full compliance with the indications provided by the competent authorities regarding unexploded ordnance of war, without prejudice to the fact that all necessary measures will be adopted to minimize the inconvenience for residents and commercial activities in the area involved.”
