ZAGREB, Feb 10 (Hina) - Police have found a secret depot packed with explosive devices in a wheat silos in southern Croatian town, formerly part of the rebel Serb territory, Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
ZAGREB, Feb 10 (Hina) - Police have found a secret depot packed
with explosive devices in a wheat silos in southern Croatian town,
formerly part of the rebel Serb territory, Interior Ministry said
in a statement on Saturday. #L#
Police with the precinct in Gracac, around 250 kilometers
south of Zagreb, entered the silos and discovered a secret depot,
10 meters long, five wide and five high. Inside were 398 cases of
various munitions and explosives, including 249 containers of
shells, hand grenades and ammunition.
The entrance door into the depot, a hole at the silos' upper
story, was camouflaged with littered wheat. The depot was
accessible through the whole and down by a wooden ladder.
"The rebels (former Serb Krajina paramilitaries) have
apparently counted on a possibility to turn the silos into a war
storage, since it also contained some hundred wagons of wheat," the
statement said.
The police also reported to apprehend Friday a former
paramilitary who had been hiding for six months. The man,
identified in the statement only by initials M.B., was seen by
local residents in the village of Varivode (at 17:30 hours Friday,
and reported to the police.
The events gave the Ministry reasons to conclude, the
statement said, "that the remnants of the Serb paramilitary groups
still count on possibility to jeopardize law and order through
terrorist actions," as they had thought of while retreating and
"deliberately leaving behind a number of well-equipped bases for
possible terrorist attacks."
Expressing gratitude to the villagers of Varivode, the
Interior Ministry called the citizens for further cooperation in
order to prevent any possible act of terrorism.
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