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Stray drone from Ukrainian war crashes in Croatia carrying bomb, official says
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A army drone that apparently flew all the way in which from the Ukrainian warfare zone over three European NATO-member states earlier than crashing in an city zone of the Croatian capital was armed with an explosive gadget, Croatia’s protection minister stated Sunday.
Police examine the positioning of a drone crash in Zagreb, Croatia, Friday, March 11, 2022. A drone that apparently flew from the Ukrainian warfare zone crashed in a single day on the outskirts of the Croatian capital, Zagreb, triggering a loud blast however inflicting no accidents, Croatian authorities stated Friday.
(AP Picture/Darko Bandic)
The Soviet-made plane crossed Romania and Hungary earlier than getting into Croatia, slamming right into a subject close to a scholar dormitory late Thursday. About 40 parked vehicles had been broken within the massive explosion, however nobody was injured.
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“Traces of explosives and clues suggesting that this was not a reconnaissance plane had been discovered. We discovered components of an air bomb,” Croatian Protection Minister Mario Banozic stated on the crash website.
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He stated that this additional raises a query about whether or not the drone belonged to Russia or Ukraine.
“There are components that indicated it may have come from each,” he stated.
Air crash investigators have pulled many of the drone’s remaining components from a big crater it created on affect, together with a partly broken black field that ought to reveal the drone’s flight path.
Croatian officers have criticized NATO for what they known as a gradual response to a really severe incident and known as into query the readiness of the army alliance’s member states to answer a doable assault.