[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, GLOBAL: "Wild boars dig up 21 unexploded WWII mortar shells in Poland"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wild boars dig up 21 unexploded WWII mortar shells in Poland

Notes from Poland
March 17, 2025 

Wild boars dug up 21 mortar shells from World War Two that had been buried in a Polish forest. The unexploded ordnance has now been safely removed without harm to either the animals or humans.
Police in the town of Słupsk on Poland’s northern Baltic coast announced on Monday that the historical ammunition had been discovered in the nearby village of Bięcino by forest rangers.
Upon visiting the site, officers quickly determined that the shells had been unearthed by wild boars. Police pyrotechnicians then confirmed that the ordnance dated back to World War Two, making them at least 80 years old.

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For the entire article, see
https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/03/17/wild-boars-dig-up-21-unexploded-wwii-mortar-shells-in-poland/

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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
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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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