Business Booming for Bomb Squad
In a Saaremaa forest by the town of Mõntu on Wednesday, Estonia's bomb disposal unit disposed of three rocket propelled grenades, five mortars and 20 rifle grenades.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit has this year already disposed of 480 explosives compared with 3,000 in all of last year, reported uudised.err.ee.
Dangerous relics left over from WWII are often found in Estonia's forests and waters - around 60,000 of them since 1992.
Last year, such explosives were detonated in four accidents, causing one death and one injury.
Last year's biggest find was 15 tons of explosive substances found in Männiku, on the outskirts of Tallinn.
"It is indescribable how much harm could be done with such a quantity," the head of the bomb squad, Arno Pugonen, said last month.
Historians hypothesized that the explosives could have been buried there in 1936 following an explosion at the Männiku ammunition plant.