They deactivate an explosive artifact of the American army on the beach of Burriana de Nerja

Second case so far this year in the province of the finding of an explosive device belonging to the United States Army on a beach.After the case that occurred last March in Benalmádena, a second military Bengal in the Nerjeña Playa de Burriana has been located on Monday.Three troops of the Spanish Navy Diving Unit, displaced from Cádiz, have been responsible for carrying out a controlled detonation, without personal or material damage having been recorded.

The alarms have jumped early in the morning, when two fishermen in the area, Francisco Pastor and José Cabello, have called the Local Police, after the second of them last Friday took the artifact out of the water and left it inthe sand."I thought it was a driver of a ship or something, I left it for the cleaning services to be taken, but throughout the weekend he has continued in the sand, and there have even been children playing with him," he confessedSouth while the military performed the explosive deactivation work, composed of phosphorus, a highly flammable material.

These types of flares are used in maritime navigation for military or even merchant ship operations, in case of emergency, since the flame remains active even in contact with water.They are manufactured by the United States Army, so that US Navy can be read outside.«There have been two foreigners who come to bathe every morning to the beach who have told us to call the police because he put 'danger', 'not touch', we have yet taken it and we have put it in a stones in thePaseo Marítimo », has admitted hair.

The Civil Guard has cordoned off the area and has given notice to the Navy, since this type of artifacts, when they appear on the beaches, are their competition.The deactivation has required up to three controlled detonations.The last, the strongest, has been the one that has caused the complete combustion of the material, generating a large column of smoke and a small fire, which has taken more than half an hour to go out.About 5:00 p.m., more than two hours after starting the maneuvers, the military has ended the operation, taking the remains in a steel capsule.

One of them has explained to South that this type of artifacts have to sink at the bottom of the sea after its use, although sometimes they do not do it or go to the shore by the maritime currents."Every month we have some similar notice on the Spanish coast," said this military.The event has generated a stir in the Nerjeña Playa de Burriana, which despite the disappeared, cloudy and cold day, has gathered dozens of curious.In addition to the Civil Guard, an ambulance of the local health center has come to act in case it had been necessary.

The police cordon has been about a hundred meters around the place where the specialist military have placed the artifact for the three controlled explosions, in front of a large rock, known in the town as the 'Stone of Sanjuaver'.Chiringuito Moreno, the closest to the point of the finding and maneuvers, has worked normally, although its clients have not taken an eye on what was happening, an event that has become the topic of conversation in Nerja on Monday,circulating dozens of videos and messages through social networks.