Tokyo: An explosion wounded 4 males in a Japanese construction for the conservation of unexploded bombs in an Air Base within the United States in Okinawa on Monday (June 9), mentioned a firewife official, with their non -critical circumstances.
The members of the self -defense forces of Japan (SDF) on the construction of the Kadena air base have been making an attempt to erase the objects of the construction to re -evaluate in the event that they have been bombs, mentioned Akira Kamiunten, an official of the firefighters.
During this course of, there was an explosion that wounded 4 male SDF members who have been dropped at the hospital, he advised AFP.
Jiji Press and different native media mentioned that not one of the wounds was harmful for all times.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense additionally confirmed the information of an explosion on the Kadena air base, situated on the primary island of the southern area of Okinawa.
During the Second World War, Japan used Okinawa as a bearing to decelerate US forces.
More than 1 / 4 of the civilian inhabitants of the primary island died within the battle of Okinawa of 1945.
The American occupation ended there solely in 1972, underneath a mutual treaty that left the American bases in place.
Today Okinawa accommodates 70 % of the land used for the US bases in Japan and greater than half the presence of US troops.
