KALIBO, Aklan – A vintage mortar bomb was pulled out from the waters of Sibuyan Sea by a fisherman in Barangay Camanci Norte, Numancia, Aklan.
Jenley Ranigo of Barangay Bakhaw Norte here discovered the unexploded ordnance (UXO), which dates back from World War II on March 20.
Responding police personnel then sealed off the area before the UXO was turned over to the Explosive Incident Response Team (EIRT) of the Regional Explosives Ordnance Disposal & Canine Unit 6.
According to police investigators, the 81-millimeter-long old mortar bomb weighing four kilograms could explode and kill anyone within a 250 meter radius.
The decades-old UXO incendiary was transported by EIRT to a safe area in Aklan Police Provincial Office for safe disposal.(With a report from Akean Forum/PN)
