Ostend By the find of an English vliegtuigbom his Tuesday afternoon that 43 people were evacuated from the high rise buildings at the Henry Baelskaai in Ostend. The bomb was exposed to an adjacent yard. Before DOVO the springtuig could dismantle, first had the whole neighborhood to be evacuated.
According to police chief Carlo Smits was the springtuig of 250 pounds Monday already encountered in excavation works along the Hendrik Baelskaai. “There was thought that the to one shell went without much danger. DOVO would the obus Monday morning to retrieve it, but when it became clear that it is a very different caliber was”, says Smits. It was an English vliegtuigbom from the Second world War, of 250 pounds, of which the starter was intact. Police, mayor, fire department and DOVO decided a perimeter of 500 meters in diameter, including some high-rise apartment buildings on the Henry Baelskaai and companies.
In total, according to mayor Bart Tommelein (Open Vld) 43 persons evacuated. Among them, Lieven Vanthuyne. “I was together with my wife to the supermarket. When we got back, we were not allowed more to our apartment. With a bus we are next to the Dunes and the Sea transferred, together with about twenty others. We were very well catered for with tea and biscuits. We were given time updates of the situation, so that makes us happy”, responds Lieven Vanthuyne.
