Nearly 100 World War II mines discovered in eastern Slovak village

Explosives experts discovered 98 German mines from World War II in the village of Mokrance in eastern Slovakia. A police pyrotechnician detonated some of the ordnance at a quarry near the nearby town of Drienovec, while the remaining mines were transported to a police storage facility for safe disposal. The discovery highlights the ongoing presence of unexploded ordnance across Slovakia, where battlefields from the 1944-1945 fighting between German and Soviet forces continue to yield dangerous wartime remnants nearly eight decades after the conflict ended.