Ammunition-Filled Chest Discovered on Beach Near Tangier Airport

A wooden chest full of bullets. This is what the security and military authorities discovered on Sunday evening, on the beach of Jbila, near the Ibn Battouta international airport of Tangier, reports the local site Tanja24. This surprising discovery mobilized the authorities and elements of the Royal Gendarmerie and the police, as well as a military engineering team. Upon arrival on the scene, they examined the chest and its contents.

The preliminary investigation reveals that the chest contained a large quantity of old-type bullets. Enough to fear the possibility of a security risk. These fears prompted the authorities to transport the chest in a secure manner to a safe place to carry out the necessary tests and research. It is a question of determining the origin of the chest and how it ended up on the beach.