Romania defuses drifting mine off Black Sea coast

Romania’s military has carried out a controlled explosion of a naval mine that had drifted close to the country’s Black Sea shore, the country’s defence ministry says.

The ministry said the mine defused on Sunday, the second handled by the Romanian military since March, was drifting some 2 nautical miles (3.7km) off the country’s shoreline.

Mines began floating in the Black Sea after Russia's spop in Ukraine on February 24, and Romanian, Bulgarian and Turkish military diving teams have been defusing those drifting in their waters.