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Bazooka bullet (archive photo from 1945)
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An eleven-year-old found the grenade of a bazooka in a horse paddock near Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The boy searched a meadow in Bad Wünnenberg with a metal detector on Saturday, as the local police announced on Monday.
When the device struck, the boy dug with a shovel and discovered the rusted grenade of a bazooka about 20 centimeters deep.
His mother then alerted the police, which in turn switched on the ordnance disposal service.
This classified the find according to the information as dangerous.
The public order office secured the site until the grenade, which was presumably still in use, was picked up.
Warning of metal objects in the ground
The city of Bad Wünnenberg and the Paderborn District Police Department warned against touching, moving or even transporting metal objects hidden in the ground or under water.
There is always the risk that it is old war ammunition or live weapons.
Suspicious finds are to be reported immediately to the police, the public order office or the ordnance disposal service.
ala / AFP
