28/04/2022 Regno Unito, Inghilterra, Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, Winterton-on-Sea
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law enforcement agency for assistance”
By Liz Coates
A man has described how his dog dug up a grenade on a Norfolk beach and “tossed it around like a tennis ball”. Steve Rose was out walking his springer spaniel Luna on the dunes at Winterton on Sunday (April 24) at around 3.30pm when she ran off into the grass and “made a bit of a fuss”. When he rounded the corner and saw what she was playing with he said he was “slightly horrified”, calling her off and alerting the emergency services. Norfolk police and the Coastguard attended putting a cordon in place and calling in an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team, from at Colchester, after sending them photographs of the device, likely a practice explosive from the Second World War which could still contain some charge. Mr Rose, 51, an electrical engineer for the offshore wind industry, said it was likely some of Luna’s basic training kicked in after she trained as a sniffer dog with the services but failed the tests. However, from what he could see, the device was only just below the surface and didn’t take much effort to be excavated. He said he stayed with the device – likely a hand grenade or rifle grenade, army experts have said – for some time but eventually left the scene around a mile north of the village to go home for his tea.
Photo-Source: greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk
Photo: Emergency services descended on the dunes at Winterton to deal with a hazard – a Second World War grenade dug up by family dog Luna. – Credit: Stanley Stone
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