{"id":1427707,"date":"2026-08-13T20:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/explosion-at-large-ammunition-factory-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:14:51","slug":"explosion-at-large-ammunition-factory-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/explosion-at-large-ammunition-factory-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at large ammunition factory in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A fire and explosion have broken out at a large ammunition factory in the town of Colleferro, south of Rome. The accident occurred in the gunpowder pressing workshop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/2026\/08\/13\/fire-and-explosion-at-munitions-plant-at-colleferro_0ba6395b-d466-42ec-81f7-9c568be7d088.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> ANSA.<\/p>\n<p> The fire broke out at the former Simmel Difesa factory, which is now owned by KNDS Ammo Italy, the Italian division of the European defense concern KNDS.<\/p>\n<p> The enterprise produces medium and large caliber ammunition for land and naval weapons systems. The plant also produces solid fuel for aerospace launchers.<\/p>\n<p> According to preliminary information, the accident occurred in a workshop where gunpowder is pressed.<\/p>\n<p> Several fire crews arrived at the scene. At the time of the information, rescuers had not yet been able to fully extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/na-zavodi-boieprypasiv-u-bolharii-prolunaly-vybukhy-detali\/\">explosions were heard at a munitions factory in central Bulgaria.<\/a> Before that, a truck caught fire at one of the company&#8217;s warehouses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire and explosion have broken out at a large ammunition factory in the town of Colleferro, south of Rome. The accident occurred in the gunpowder pressing workshop. This is reported by ANSA. The fire broke out at the former Simmel Difesa factory, which is now owned by KNDS Ammo Italy, the Italian division of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1427703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1427707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1427703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}