Drone debris found on Romanian beach as police cordon off area
Romanian police (photo: Getty Images)
An alert was declared on a beach in the Romanian village of Costinești after a drone fragment was discovered. Police immediately cordoned off the area around the find, according to Digi24.
The suspicious object was discovered directly on the coast. Law enforcement officers immediately arrived at the scene and established a security perimeter.
Authorities later officially confirmed that the object found was part of an unmanned aerial vehicle.
The fragment was found near the site where a drone had already been discovered the previous day. Experts do not rule out that the fragment may be part of the drone found 24 hours earlier.
Drone fragment found in Romania (photo: digi24.ro)
What the Defense Ministry says
Vacationers were the first to spot the dangerous object near the dam on August 13 and reported it to emergency services. Romania's Ministry of Defense later revealed details about the involvement of military explosives experts.
"At around 10:40 a.m., the Coast Guard requested assistance from the Romanian Naval Forces, asking them to dispatch an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) combat diver team," the ministry said.
A specialized team of EOD divers inspected the fragment. Following the inspection, EOD specialists determined that the object contained no explosives and posed no pyrotechnic hazard.
Law enforcement officers are currently continuing to monitor the coastal area.
On August 11, the Romanian military destroyed two Gerbera-type drones near the Neptun Deep offshore gas project. Explosives experts detonated the drones approximately 90 nautical miles (more than 166 km) east of Constanța.
On July 31, Romanian authorities issued an emergency warning to residents of the northern part of Tulcea County after drones were detected near the Ukrainian border. Two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled to patrol the airspace.
Romania also shot down three Russian drones over the course of three days. Bucharest spent around €1.5 million to destroy the drones.
