[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: "More than 100 unexploded bombs found in Solomon Islands backyard"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This article should serve as a reminder that old munitions don’t just fade away. - LS]

More than 100 unexploded bombs found in Solomon Islands backyard
A man digging a hole for a new septic system found the second world war ordnance, which are part of a deadly legacy of the war in the Pacific

By Georgina Kekea in Honiara and Kate Lyons
Guardian
May 18, 2021

One hundred and one unexploded second world war bombs have been discovered in a backyard of a home in Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands in the south Pacific.

The unexploded ordnances (UXO) were found by a man who was digging a hole for a new septic system at his property in a residential area.

Following the discovery, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) was called in and removed 101 US 105mm High Explosive Projectiles from the site. Police say they were being stored securely while work was done to defuse the bombs. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/19/more-than-100-unexploded-bombs-found-in-solomon-islands-back-yard-second-world-war

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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