Vintage bombs unearthed in UP campus
Authorities are getting concerned about a number of vintage bombs recently recovered from the Diliman campus of the University of the
In a month, or since early June, more than 30 vintage bombs have been recovered from the campus, according to Inspector Arnulfo Franco, chief of the Quezon City Police District’s Explosives and Ordnance Division. While the bombs are generally found in different sites inside the campus, most of the vintage explosives were dug from the site of the UP’s National Science Complex along
Based on the records of the QCPD-EOD, among the bombs that were recovered were 25-pounder drop bombs. Franco said there were also mortar bombs that are usually used for cannons.
It is still not clear how old the vintage bombs are.
“It just so happened that many of these bombs were buried there. We’re not sure what structure stood there before the campus was built,” Franco said.
Franco even revealed that the office of the UP vice chancellor recently requested the QCPD to conduct a clearing operation to recover the vintage bombs that could still be buried in the campus.
However, Franco said that the QCPD-EOD at present does not have facilities that would be able to detect from above the ground whether vintage bombs are buried under.
He said police have instead provided a seminar to the construction workers at the site on how to behave when they chance upon buried vintage bombs.
In almost all of the cases, the construction workers were the ones who first discovered the vintage bombs while doing excavations at the said site.
Franco said that while the buried vintage bombs are already rusting, they are still considered explosive and could still expose people, especially the students, to danger.
He said only bomb experts from the police should be the ones to recover the vintage bombs that he said are eventually brought to a bomb disposal site at
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