Police blow up wartime anti-personnel mine
Monday 3rd May 2010, 2:29PM BST.
From the left, Morgan Sales, 9, Kane Macgregor, 9, Jude Wegerer, 10, and Imogen Wegerer, 8, show off their shrapnel souvenirs of the anti-personnel mine with policeman Jim Spelman. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0961441)
ANYONE out walking their dog on Saturday afternoon near Rousse Tower would have had a shock as they stumbled upon a bomb disposal team dealing with an anti-personnel mine.
Police were alerted after an islander came across an unexploded Second World War relic, which was said by officers to still be in very good condition.
The bomb squad worked at the scene for more than an hour before carrying out a controlled explosion.
‘Somebody has come across an old anti-personnel mine near the tower,’ a police spokesman said.
‘It is in quite good condition so we have gone down to dispose of it safely.’
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( On behalf of GG who is indisposed )
I’ll bet that mine was left there by bloody foreigners
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Ray
Yea a foreign mine taking up local space eh!
Trouble is Ray its been there over 15years so I guess we have to let it stay?
I say no more licences for non-essential mines!
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