Pyrotechnics warn of upcoming controlled explosions at Vrbětice munitions depot

Pyrotechnics clearing the munitions depot in Vrbětice, Moravia, have warned of upcoming controlled explosions. Soldiers and explosives experts have been working throughout the Christmas holidays to clear the main roads along which munitions undamaged by the devastating blast in mid-October and dozens of others that followed could be transported to a new site. The surrounding grounds of the munitions depot are still scattered with damaged ammunition which will need to be eliminated in a series of controlled explosions in the coming days. Villages in the vicinity will be warned about the blasts well in advance.