The device, found during work at the Volkswagen gigafactory park, carried an explosive charge and had to be detonated
The works prior to the urbanization of a business park in the Valencian town of Sagunto have left a surprising discovery this Friday: an artifact which, by all indications, is from the Civil War.
The discovery has been made late in the morning during the work that is being carried out to remove all the trees and level the land of this polygon where the gigafactory of Volkswagen.
As soon as it has been detected, the Civil Guard has been notified and members of the Tedax have traveled to the place, confirming that it was a howitzer, still loaded explosive.
Therefore, after establishing a security cordon, They have made a hole about two meters deep, they have lowered it there and they have made a controlled detonation.
According to what Levante-EMV, from the Prensa Ibérica group, has learned, the operation has gone without problems or unforeseen events.