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The
Soviet-made military drone
that crashed in Croatia's capital Zagreb on Thursday was carrying a bomb, the Croatian defense minister said on Sunday.
"We have discovered parts of the aerial bomb in the device ... and we can say for now that
it is an aerial bomb
that was used on Soviet-made aircraft," Croatian Defense Minister Mario Banozic told reporters. .
Croatian authorities said on Saturday that the aircraft was a
Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh
("Fast" in Russian), a drone made in the 1970s and 1980s for the Soviet Army, used for reconnaissance missions.
According to the minister, the
unmanned aircraft of more than 6 tons
has undergone "modifications (...) obviously in recent times."
"The remains of the explosive and other items found suggest that this device
was not intended for reconnaissance
," Banozic said.
The minister did not respond to journalists' questions
about whether the bomb had exploded
, nor could he specify the type.
The device crashed on Thursday night in a park located
six kilometers from the center of Zagreb
, next to a university campus that houses 4,500 students and about 200 meters from a residential area, without causing casualties.
Some
40 cars parked
in a car park were damaged.
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