More than 1.4 thousand wartime aerial bombs discovered in Lepel district

May 16, Vitebsk /Olga Bogacheva - BELTA/. A large ammunition depot from the Great Patriotic War era has been discovered in the Lepel district, investigator-criminalist of the Vitebsk region prosecutor's office Valentin Sukhoveev told a BELTA correspondent. During land reclamation work near the village of Drazhno, workers found about 200 aerial bombs. During the inspection of the hazardous area, sappers of military unit No. 5530 discovered 1428 "AO-2.5 SCH" aerial bombs, one "FAB-50" aerial bomb, and one Soviet-made fuse. All ammunition was removed to a safe place and destroyed. As noted in military unit No. 5530, an airfield was located in these areas during the war years.-0-