A charity shop in a seaside town receives an unexploded device, and explosive ordnance disposal experts are called in after staff handle the donation. Reports say the item is taken away for specialist assessment and is later destroyed on a beach.
Multiple outlets identify the object as a World War Two-era British mortar. One report states it is a small, high-explosive mortar and describes the bomb squad’s response from the shop to the disposal site. Another describes the controlled destruction carried out by explosive ordnance disposal personnel.
While the accounts differ slightly in how they describe the discovery and the sequence leading up to disposal, they consistently say the suspected wartime ammunition is confirmed and detonated in a controlled manner to make the area safe.
