Szabadság Bridge and the Buda embankments near the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) will be temporarily closed early Friday morning due to the removal of explosive devices from the Danube, the Hungarian Armed Forces’ bomb disposal unit said on Thursday.
Last weekend, the unit received two reports of unexploded devices found near the Danube’s Raoul Wallenberg embankment and near the Valdemar and Nina Langlet embankment.
On Tuesday, a bomb disposal patrol identified the devices near the Raoul Wallenberg embankment as a Soviet-era 203mm concrete-piercing shell from the Second World War and a suspected 19th-century cannonball. Near BME, they identified a German Second World War-era supply container holding eight Panzerfaust launch tubes, their warheads and detonators.
At 4 AM on Friday, Szabadság Bridge and the entire length of the Raoul Wallenberg embankment will be closed to remove the devices.
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