A French onion supply made eyes water greater than ordinary when Dutch authorities found two hand grenades hidden among the many greens, the Group for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons stated Wednesday.
The grenades, relationship from 1925, have been present in a consignment of onions heading from France to a manufacturing facility within the northern Dutch province of Zeeland.
Dutch authorities requested the OPCW to look at the discover.
“The projectiles have been recognized to be in line with pre-1925 French and German manufactured outdated chemical weapons,” the Hague-based group concluded after investigating the case.
“Nonetheless, the kind of chemical fill couldn’t be recognized,” it added in an announcement.
The rationale for the weapons’ presence within the supply stays a thriller.
The grenades can be destroyed, however for the reason that Netherlands lacks a devoted destruction facility for this kind of object, they are going to be “transferred as poisonous waste to the specialised chemical dismantling facility in Poelkapelle, Belgium,” the OPCW stated.
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The Netherlands thanked the Belgian authorities for his or her assist.
The unusual discovery got here simply days after a reside grenade was discovered by a toddler within the entrance yard of his household’s residence Washington state. Authorities stated a 3-year-old boy found a World Conflict II-era hand grenade, and a bomb squad eliminated and disposed of the explosive. Nobody was injured, in response to the sheriff’s workplace.
