18 July 2011 Last updated at 12:48 ET

Police guard the freight train. 18 July 2011 The shipment, bound for a
factory in Bulgaria, was under police guard

BBC - Romanian officials have reassured the public after the theft of
more than 60 missile warheads from a train.

The warheads were taken from a railway car carrying military equipment
to neighbouring Bulgaria on Saturday.

Officials said the stolen warheads could not be detonated because they
were in component form without explosives.

Investigators say the missiles could have been stolen for their scrap
metal value.

Romanian media said when the freight train stopped in Giurgiu, southern
Romania, it was found that doors on the railway car had been forced and
four boxes of 16 warheads stolen.

Officials are investigating how the theft could have happened while the
consignment was being guarded by paramilitary police.

Bulgaria's economy ministry said the warheads belonged to Grad missiles
which are normally fired from multiple-rocket launchers.

In a statement it said the shipment was part of a transfer of
"nonfunctional components and parts" for reprocessing at the VMZ factory
- one of Bulgaria's largest military factories - in Sopot.

Romanian officials close to the investigation told two daily newspapers
that the warheads did not contain explosives.

Romanian police spokesman Florin Hulea also reassured the public, saying
the warheads posed no risk.

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