Harborough Schoolmates Pull Live Grenade Out Of Canal
Written by HFM News on 26th October 2020
Two Market Harborough school friends found more than they had bargained when they went magnet fishing – a World War One grenade.
Kaleb Russell, 11 and Archie Watts, 12, both pupils at Welland Park Academy, pulled it out of the canal at Frog Island in Leicester on Friday, while on a trip out with Kaleb’s step-Dad, Oliver Marabella, who called Police.
The grenade found by Kaleb & Archie
The discovery prompted a full-scale emergency response, with an army bomb disposal team being called in and near-by businesses evacuated as a cordon was put in place around the area of Soar Lane.
The grenade when then removed to safe location where a controlled explosion was carried out.
Kaleb & Archie
Army Bomb Disposal experts were called in
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