{"id":8622,"date":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T12:02:49","slug":"naval-mine-discovered-on-romanian-beach-near-midia-firing-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8622","title":{"rendered":"Naval mine discovered on Romanian beach near Midia firing range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian military personnel discovered a naval mine washed ashore on a beach near the Midia firing range on Wednesday morning, January 28, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapn.ro\/cpresa\/19130_comunicat-de-presa\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. A team of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) divers from the 39th Divers Center has been deployed to identify and neutralise the device.<\/p>\n<p>The mine was found at around 10:05 a.m. by soldiers operating in the Midia shooting range area, the ministry said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities immediately secured the perimeter with the support of the Constan\u021ba County Police Inspectorate and activated standard operational procedures for such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident occurred in August in the village of Vadu, where authorities were alerted via an emergency call about a suspicious spherical metal object, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biziday.ro\/346356-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biziday.ro<\/a> reported. Military divers later confirmed that the object was a contact naval mine, which was subsequently transported to the Capu Midia range and destroyed in a controlled operation.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/royalty-free-stock-photography-naval-mine-image7330237\">Lga\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian military personnel discovered a naval mine washed ashore on a beach near the Midia firing range on Wednesday morning, January 28, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) said. A team of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) divers from the 39th Divers Center has been deployed to identify and neutralise the device. The mine was found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}