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Customer from grocery store finds hand grenade hidden among potatoes

02/10/2012

The hand grenade, which dates from the Second World War, comes from a potato field that was a battlefield between 1939 and 1945.

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A customer of a local grocery store in the Spanish town of Chiclana de la Frontera, (Cadiz) in southern Spain found inside a bag of potatoes a hand grenade from the Second World War.

According to Spanish news agency Europa Press quoting police sources, the grenade was petrified and looked like a potato.

The same sources pointed out that the field where the potatoes had grown, somewhere in the French border with Belgium, had been a battlefield between 1939 and 1945.

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