After a bomb was discovered close to the region that the Russian air force unintentionally attacked earlier this week, more than 3,000 people were evacuated from residential structures in the Russian city of Belgorod on Saturday, according to Russian state media.
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By Mehran Mazari
According to TASS, explosives experts examined the gadget and determined there was no explosion risk.
The regional governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced on his Telegram channel that the device had been taken out of the vicinity and that residents were going back to their apartments.
A bomb thrown by a Russian warplane late on Thursday left a massive crater, blew a car onto a roof, and damaged neighboring houses in Belgorod, a city of more than 400,000 people close to the Ukrainian border.
According to local authorities, the blast injured two persons.
State-run media attributed the incident to an "accidental" or "emergency" munition drop.
If the device found this weekend was likewise dropped on Thursday has not been determined.
Former Royal Australian Air Force officer and currently visiting scholar at the Griffith Asia Institute, Peter Layton, called the occurrence on Thursday "odd."
He claimed that in order to prevent it from detonating and attempting to do so in a populated location, a pilot would typically unleash ordnance in a "safe" mode.
