A mine spent 40 years in the wall of a Vitsebsk block of flats

An unusual discovery was made by a worker who was installing a clothes washer in a block of flats in Maskouski Avenue in Vitsebsk. He made a hollow in the wall and saw a mine in it. Rescuers had to evacuate all the inhabitants.   The mine was taken away and destroyed. According to the preliminary information, builders left the mine in the wall when they were installing sanitary engineering equipment in 1969.

Yadvіha Stasheuskaya, European Radio for Belarus, Vitsebsk