VIDEO: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS FIND TWO LIVE WW2 BOMBS ON SITE 홍콩건설현장, 2차세계대전 사용 대형 폭탄 발견

VIDEO: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS FIND TWO LIVE WW2 BOMBS ON SITE

Contractor was not using metal detectors on excavation site

February 05, 2018

Two American-made AN-M65 model 450kg bombs left over from World War II were discovered last week by the MTR Corporation, Hong Kong's railway agency. The bombs were found stuck in the mud at a Wan Chai construction site where MTR has been construction a rail link for the Sha Tin-Central line.

홍콩건설현장, 2차세계대전 사용 대형 폭탄 발견 

세계 2차대전 때 사용하던 2개의 각 450kg 중량의 미국산 AN-M65 폭탄이 

MTR 홍콩 철도회사에 의해 지난주 건설현장에서 발견됐다.

샤틴 중앙선을 건설 중인 홍콩 완차이 건설현장

건설현장 부지에는 전자 탐지기를 사용하기에는 금속들이 너무 많아 

육안으로 조사가 이루어졌다

이로 인해 5천명의 인근 지역 사람들을 대피시키고 폭발물 처리반이 

폭탄 제거작업을 완료했다.

폭발물 처리반은 유례없이 어려운 제거작업을 했다고 말했는데

폭탄 접근성의 어려움과 현장이 빗물로 젖어 있었으며 

열악한 장비 상태 등을 꼽았다.

황기철 콘페이퍼 에디터 큐레이터

Ki Chul Hwang, conpaper editor, curator

The company said there was too much metal in the site's ground to use electronic detectors, so instead relied on visual inspections by workers.

5,000 people in the area were evacuated overnight so police bomb disposal officers could cut through the bombs' casing and burn off the explosives inside.

Officer Alick McWhirter of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau stressed that the operation was made considerably more difficult by the rain-soaked work site and the device’s deteriorating condition.

“Bomb disposal operations are dirty, difficult and dangerous. In this particular case, all three were true,” he said. “Because of the rain yesterday, the working conditions were not good. Because of the location, it was extremely difficult to be able to access it. Because of the nature of the [bomb’s] firing mechanism and fuses – one of which we couldn’t even see – it was extremely dangerous for the officers engaged in the disposal operation.”

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