Production in Unipetrol’s Litvínov refinery in North Bohemia was shut down after an unexploded World War II-era bomb was discovered during excavation work in a remote section of the complex on Wednesday.
The refinery is expected to resume operations once the unexploded bomb is safely removed from the site, a process that the police estimate will be completed no earlier than Wednesday, 28 August. Pyrotechnicians identified the find as a 250-kg British aerial bomb designed to explode 144 hours after the impact.
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Source: Radio Prague News
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