Unexploded ordnance in the garbage storage area Temporary evacuation call around the collection site Nagoya, June 15, 18:09
This month, it was discovered that unexploded ordnance in a bag was dumped at a garbage dump in Nagoya City and was collected by a collector. The residents in the vicinity of the environmental business of the collection destination are temporarily called for evacuation, and the city is calling for not to dispose of inappropriate things as garbage.
According to Nagoya City, a non-burnable garbage collector found something like a cannonball that was thrown away at a garbage depot near Kurokawa Station on the subway Meijo Line on Kurokawa Hon-dori in Kita Ward on the 10th of this month.
It was put in a bag with other garbage, collected as it was, and about an hour and a half later, when I returned to the Kita Environmental Office in Nagoya, about a kilometer away, I reported to the police.
When the police inspected while contacting the Self-Defense Forces, it was abandoned with a 75 mm cannonball used by the former Japanese army with a length of 26.5 cm and a diameter of about 7 cm during the Pacific War, the police There was a situation in which the area around the area was regulated and employees and neighboring residents were temporarily evacuated.
Approximately two hours later, restrictions were lifted after it was confirmed that there was no detonator "fuze" on the shell and there was no danger of an explosion.
This is the first time that unexploded ordnance was thrown out as garbage in Nagoya City, and the police are investigating the suspected illegal dumping.
The Kita Environment Office of Nagoya City calls for "For the safety of collectors and local residents, please be careful not to mix inappropriate materials with ordinary garbage and dispose of them."