(ANSA) - BREUIL-CERVINIA, 10 AUG - The drought continues to bring out traces of the past in the Alps. At 3,090 meters above sea level, the melting of the Ventina glacier, in Cervinia, has returned a bomb, probably an artillery shell from the Second World War world.
Partly oxidized, it measures 30 centimeters in length and five in diameter.
There are no houses nearby and no sports facilities.
The area, in the Canale dellaspazzatura, has been delimited with barriers, and it is forbidden to approach it.
It was a citizen who reported the discovery in recent days to the carabinieri, who requested the intervention of the army bomb squads.
Across the border, in Switzerland, are two recent finds.
On 26 July, the melting of the Stockji glacier (3,092 meters), not far from the Matterhorn, brought to light the mummified remains of a mountaineer who had probably died for at least 30 years.
A few days later, on 4 August, the Aletsch glacier, also in the canton of Valais, returned some parts of a tourist plane, a Piper Cherokee, which crashed in June 1968. (ANSA).