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    Missile found in Durban South vicinity

    An explosive device, believed to be a missile, was found local scrap metal dealership, this morning.
    Lauren Beukes | 27 May 2014 14:04









    The missile before it was detonated.

    Pandemonium broke out in the Jacobs area after an explosive device, believed to be a missile, was allegedly found in a local scrap metal dealership in Industria Road, this morning.
    The local police and relevant personnel were informed of the incident and immediately arrived at the scene to cordon off the area. Members of the police force quickly evacuated people from the area until the Bomb Squad had the situation under control. Luckily, the explosive device was successfully detonated and no one was injured.
    Provincial police spokesman, Col Jay Naicker confirmed the incident. He said, “Brighton Beach SAPS and the Bomb Squad were informed of the incident. Police will investigate the explosive device’s origin. Police on the scene assisted in evacuating people and controlling traffic.”
    http://risingsunchatsworth.co.za/127...-metal-dealers

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    Default Re: Missile found in Durban South vicinity

    That looks like a 90mm round from an Eland or Ratel 90, also looks to be a training or dummy round. Wonder how it got there?

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    Default Re: Missile found in Durban South vicinity

    The dummy round is all aluminum. Why would they blow it up.
    I had one in my bar for years, its usually painted blue.

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    Q - if you blow it up, how are you going to establish its origin, other than the fact that it only fits a military canon.

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    via Sgt. Clark on fb-

    Durban Explosives Unit Acting
    Commander Captain N.C.Gunther
    upon inspection of the object
    confirmed it to be a live 91mm anti-
    tank projectile. With skill and precision
    Warrant Officer Morné Mathysen,
    bomb technician strategically placed
    the required explosive in place to
    detonate the live anti-tank projectile.
    The detonation was executed with zero loss of live and no damages. An
    enquiry has been registered with the
    Brighton Beach Detective Services such as to trace the origin of the anti-tank projectile.

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    Default Re: Missile found in Durban South vicinity

    Quote Originally Posted by P35 View Post
    Q - if you blow it up, how are you going to establish its origin, other than the fact that it only fits a military canon.
    I'm no expert but shouldn't it have a serial number? Maybe they can trace it that way?!

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    91mm anti - tank projectile finds its way to a scrap metal dealer...how? Its not the kind of thing you simply pick up on the pavement.

    Not many armour divisions of the SA Army in Durban either.

    http://www.army.mil.za/contactus/KwaZuluNatal.htm

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    Default Re: Missile found in Durban South vicinity

    When the squatta's took over Hammanskraal (military area) they started picking up all things metal to sell as scrap metal. And so Lots of unexploded ordnance made its way to PTA West scrap metal dealers...

    Wasn't there an article in the news a couple of years back of an explosion at one of these dealers...? Guy attemted to cut something up with a blowtorch that went 'boom'... I'll see if I can googlefind the article.

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    Okay, he wasn't cutting the ordnance...

    http://mg.co.za/article/2007-05-31-o...oria-explosion

    A man died and 11 others were seriously injured in an explosion at a scrapyard in the Bon Accord area of Pretoria on Wednesday, the Tshwane metro said.


    “Preliminary indications show that there were explosives in the metals with which the men were working at the time of the explosion,” spokesperson William Baloyi said.


    The blast rocked the area on Wednesday morning.


    Police spokesperson Captain Lucas Sithole said forensics investigators had removed some of the debris to investigate what had caused the explosion.


    He denied media reports that the explosion was caused by a mortar shell.


    He said sections of the debris may have resembled that of a mortar bomb.


    “So it’s just a rumour,” he said.


    Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday that the explosion happened when the owner of the scrapyard threw a mortar to the ground to demonstrate that it was harmless.


    An eyewitness was quoted as saying: “I told [the owner] that those things [mortars] look very dangerous. I asked him how dangerous they are and he told me they are harmless ... He took one and threw it to the ground and then there was a big bang.”


    Inspector Nic de Jager, from the police’s explosives unit, said that someone might have found the mortars on the army’s training grounds in Murray Hill, north of Pretoria, and then sold them to the owner.


    The man who was killed was an employee at the scrapyard. The owner was taken to a private hospital in a serious condition, reported Beeld.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gruntmonger View Post
    An eyewitness was quoted as saying: “I told [the owner] that those things [mortars] look very dangerous. I asked him how dangerous they are and he told me they are harmless ... He took one and threw it to the ground and then there was a big bang.”
    If the owner was killed I would of said that sounds alot like natural selection.

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