Cops call in bomb squad.A POLICE station was evacuated after a member of the public handed in what was thought to be a World War II shell. Officers based at Mortimer Street, in Birkenhead, were told to leave the building at 5.50pm on Sunday while a Ministry of Defence bomb disposal team investigated. A house clearance team working at the home of a man in his 90s found a signal flare Signal Flare is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes. Transformers: Energon Signal Flare is a young Omnicon. Signal Flare is one of the greatest Energon welders of his kind. which was mistaken for a shell. There were also 11 shotgun cartridges This is a list of shotgun cartridges.
The first small arms came into general use at the end of the 14th cent. cartridges, a Colt pistol 1. (Firearms) A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. and a large knife. An MoD spokesman said: "The ammunition was discovered to be inert, nothing was live. "The experts removed it from Birkenhead police station manually as it was in no danger of going off. "The building was closed for an hour. It makes sense to be cautious with these finds" |
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