A schoolboy caught more than he bargained for when magnet fishing after snagging a suspected mortar shell from a local river.
Ten-year-old Jensen Sudron was with his dad Gary when he pulled out the deadly find from a stream in the Middlesbrough suburb of Grangetown. They didn’t realise what they had caught until Gary showed it to his workmates who told him it was a bomb, reports Teesside Live.
He immediately called the police and officers quickly arrived to the Birchington Avenue of Grangetown on Monday (August 8) and evacuated the street and cordoned off the area. The road was closed and a large cordon was put in place blocking access.
