An image provided by the police shows the unexploded
grenade found in Mosgiel today.
A section of Mosgiel that was cordoned off today after
contractors working on a drain sucked up what is believed to be
a World War 2 grenade, has been reopened after the army bomb
disposal team arrived and retrieved the grenade just after 4pm.
Residents and other members of the public were free to come
and go from Murray St, said Senior Sergeant Craig Brown of
Dunedin police.
Contractors were carrying out work in Murray St about 10.30am
when they sucked up something which blocked the vacuum tube.
The men had banged the tube on the ground several times
before the grenade fell out.
The grenade was live, it had some explosive in it, but there
was no detonator in it, so the likelihood of it exploding was
remote, he said.
The army bomb disposal unit disposed of the grenade before
returning to Christchurch.
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