The Icelandic Coast Guard bomb squad was called to defuse an explosive device discovered at a golf court in a Reykjavík suburb. According to the local newspaper Fréttablaðið the artillery round was discovered at noon today. The artillery round, which is believed to date to the Second World War was still active. Naval mines and artillery rounds dating back to the Second World War are regularly found in Iceland and Icelandic waters.
The discovery was called in by the operator of a tractor excavator who told the local news site Vísir that he initially thought the artillery round was a piece of rusted pipe:
I was moving the gravel with the excavator when I see what I thought was a piece of pipe. So I get out to check it out, and pick this thing up. That's when I discover I'm actually holding a bomb.
He put the bomb down carefully, calling the Police to report the discovery.
Fréttablaðið reports that the round was discovered in gravel brought to the site by a dumptruck from Björgun, a company which produces gravel and sand by dredging the channels leading to Reykjavík's harbors. The round is believed to have come from the ocean floor off the coast of Reykjavík.
The Icelandic Coast Guard bomb squad was called to defuse an explosive device discovered at a golf court in a Reykjavík suburb. According to the local newspaper Fréttablaðið the artillery round was discovered at noon today. The artillery round, which is believed to date to the Second World War was still active. Naval mines and artillery rounds dating back to the Second World War are regularly found in Iceland and Icelandic waters.
The discovery was called in by the operator of a tractor excavator who told the local news site Vísir that he initially thought the artillery round was a piece of rusted pipe:
I was moving the gravel with the excavator when I see what I thought was a piece of pipe. So I get out to check it out, and pick this thing up. That's when I discover I'm actually holding a bomb.
He put the bomb down carefully, calling the Police to report the discovery.
Fréttablaðið reports that the round was discovered in gravel brought to the site by a dumptruck from Björgun, a company which produces gravel and sand by dredging the channels leading to Reykjavík's harbors. The round is believed to have come from the ocean floor off the coast of Reykjavík.
