ST. PETERSBURG, August 20 (RIA Novosti) - More than 90 items of ammunition dating back to World War II have been discovered in the south of St. Petersburg, near the highway to Moscow, the local emergencies ministry said.
"Two caches of ammunition from the time of the Great Patriotic War [the Eastern Front] were found on Sunday evening in the Pushkin District of the city, 50 meters from the St. Petersburg-Moscow highway, not far from an oil pipeline," a source in the ministry said.
On Monday sappers removed the arms, consisting of 16 aerial bombs, nine artillery shells, nine grenades, 34 mortar shells, and 23 rounds of bullets.
