White City, Oregon a man found an old mortar round on his property and rather than calling the police to report the find, he decided to transport the munition to a nearby Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Rehabilitation Center. According to a public affairs specialist from the facility, the man assumed because the facility was a Government facility that they would be able to deal with the munition.

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Wels Austria The rock band AC/DC has sold-out a concert planned for the 22nd of May scheduled to be held on the grounds of Wels Airport. Over 80,000 fans are set to attend the concert which is the first event of its kind to be held on the airport grounds. Despite giving the concert organizers initial permission for the event, local Authorities have recently threatened to cancel the event due to the potential for UXO in the area. The area is expected to contain UXO as a result of heavy allied bombing that occurred during WWII.

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Moscow, Russia Maintenance workers replacing a portion of the underground piping of a residential apartment building uncovered a large cache of military munitions. Explosives experts were called in to respond to the to the find. The munitions were identified as WWII era Russian munitions. 916 munition items were recovered in all. The majority of the munitions were 76-mm projectiles but there were also 122mm and 152mm projectiles recovered from the area. All of the munitions were found in a single large burial pit.

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Bari, Italy Authorities at the Palese Airport temporarily closed the runways when a construction crew found an unexploded WWII era U.S. bomb buried near one their runways. EOD was called in to respond and identified the UXO as a WWII era 500-lbs bomb. It is believed that the bomb was a result of allied air raids that occurred between 1942 and 1943. EOD safely removed the bomb and disposed of it through a controlled detonation. The runways were re-opened shortly after the hazard was removed.

Southhampton, United Kingdom A crew working on the London Road construction project discovered a UXO item buried at the site. The crew called the police who responded with technical support by a Royal Engineer unit. The area around the construction site was safely evacuated and secured. The UXO identified as a WWII era German 45-kg bomb (shown in the image below) was safely transported about 10 miles to Solent after it was safely uncovered.

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