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30.06.2004 - CYPRUS ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND WWII MUNITION UNDERWATER
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NICOSIA (Reuters) - American archaeologists diving for Roman artifacts off a packed swimmers' beach in Cyprus found live munition dating from the Second World War instead, authorities said on Tuesday. British bomb disposal experts were called in to destroy the device found a few yards away from the shore of a beach neighboring a British military base on the southern coast of the island. "The archaeologists were diving for bits of pottery and they saw a metal fin sticking up off the sea bed," British bases spokesman Dennis Barnes told Reuters. "It could well have been a danger to the public," he said. Experts did not want to risk moving it so it was destroyed in the water. The precise type of weapon was not immediately clear but experts believed the munition dated from the Second World War, Barnes said. |
