What the records say
- When
- 15 Mar 2008
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 41.42° N, 19.63° E
- Description
- An explosion in a badly-maintained arms depot causes 16 deaths and over 300 injured, damaging Tirana airport. Defense minister Fatmir Mediu resigns.
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2008 Gërdec explosions.
2008 Gërdec explosions
Munitions depot explosion in western Albania
At approximately 12 p.m. local time on March 15, 2008, at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec in the Vorë Municipality of Albania, U.S. and Albanian munitions experts were preparing to destroy stockpiles of obsolete ammunition by a series of small, controlled explosions. However, a chain of events led to the entire stockpile detonating simultaneously.
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