Wartime munitions blown up in Britain
19 Sept 2014 5:59 AM IST
A number of munitions recovered from an illegal ‘museum for World War One and World War Two relics’ was detonated by bomb disposal experts in Britain, a media report said on Thursday.
The large haul of hand grenades, rifles, mortar shells and guns were recovered by police at a house in Hertfordshire, BBC reported, adding that an army bomb disposal unit removed the items from the property and destroyed them in a controlled explosion.
The report said a 48-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of stealing the items from ‘protected sites’.
‘It is a criminal offence to retrieve artefacts from the ground through using a metal detector if the land is a protected site or without permission of the landowner,’ a police spokesperson
said.
The large haul of hand grenades, rifles, mortar shells and guns were recovered by police at a house in Hertfordshire, BBC reported, adding that an army bomb disposal unit removed the items from the property and destroyed them in a controlled explosion.
The report said a 48-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of stealing the items from ‘protected sites’.
‘It is a criminal offence to retrieve artefacts from the ground through using a metal detector if the land is a protected site or without permission of the landowner,’ a police spokesperson
said.
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