Over 160 unexploded practice bombs dating all the way back to World War II have been discovered underneath a children’s ...
Although the devices found during construction work were practice bombs, they can be harmful. Officials said there could be ...
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England ...
A chance discovery led officials in northern England to uncover more than 100 practice bombs from World War II buried underneath a playground.
Children in the English town of Wooler in Northumberland are temporarily without a playground after workers found 176 unexploded World War II bombs buried underneath the play area. The first ordnance ...
So far, 176 bombs have been recovered in the area, and excavators working in the area are expected to find many more.
It is believed the area where the playground was initially built was used as a Home Guard training ground and the bombs were buried at the end of the war.
The unexploded ordnance, discovered during a site renovation, were described as “practice bombs” that still carry a charge ...
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It’s quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs and it’s been a really challenging situation,” Wooler councilor Mark Mather said.
We’ve only cleared about a third of all the park and we could still find another pit with more bombs in.” In December, the ...
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...