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11/11/2014
WWII Mortar Trigger Security Alert At London Police Station
Explosives specialists were called to a south-west London police station on Monday afternoon after a man handed in a World War Two mortar bomb as part of a gun amnesty.
Police said that an 80-year-old man handed the 1940s device into Sutton station shortly before 13:30 on Monday.
Part of the building was evacuated and specialist explosives offices called in to examine the device. It was declared safe at about 14:30.
It is understood the elderly man had been given the mortar by his father and had kept it on his mantlepiece for a number of years.
Police said that the man brought the device into the station wrapped in plastic bags. He placed it on the counter telling officers it was a bomb. As officers where unable to see the device a security operation was launched to secure the device.
(MH/CD)
Police said that an 80-year-old man handed the 1940s device into Sutton station shortly before 13:30 on Monday.
Part of the building was evacuated and specialist explosives offices called in to examine the device. It was declared safe at about 14:30.
It is understood the elderly man had been given the mortar by his father and had kept it on his mantlepiece for a number of years.
Police said that the man brought the device into the station wrapped in plastic bags. He placed it on the counter telling officers it was a bomb. As officers where unable to see the device a security operation was launched to secure the device.
(MH/CD)
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