EXPLOSIVES FOUND ON FREE STATE FARM.
A South African National Defence Force warrant officer on border patrol duty found a number of buried explosives and related devices on a Free State farm near Clarens on Tuesday, police reported on Wednesday.
Constable Christopher Mophiring said warrant officer H B van Rhyn was on patrol on the farm Pelgrimsrust when local residents told him about suspicious-looking objects that had been exposed by erosion on a hillside.
When he visited the spot he found what appeared to be a cache of pipebombs, fuses and plastic explosives.
The materials had been buried for some years as everything was corroded and discoloured.
Van Rhyn collected the materials and took them to the police in Fouriesburg, said Mophiring, where explosives experts destroyed them.
The police explosives unit, along with members of the SANDF, would go over the farm with sniffer dogs on Wednesday to see whether any further explosives could be found, said Mophiring.
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18 Juin 2003 à 10:29 dans
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