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Mortar round -- Photo released by Lethbridge Police Service
By Canadian Press
EXPLOSIVE SITUATION

Lethbridge police seize and destroy live mortar rounds

Mar 3, 2020 | 6:59 AM

LETHBRIDGE- An explosives disposal unit seized and safely destroyed two live artillery rounds on the weekend.

Police say one 82-millimetre mortar round was discovered Saturday in a garbage can near a supervised consumption site and the other was found in Galt Gardens urban park.

Military explosive ordnance disposal technicians helped police destroy the rounds.

Such mortar rounds can have a blast radius of about 40 metres.

Police aren’t sure who placed the rounds at the two sites or why.

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by Canadian Press

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