Children find hand grenade on Easter egg hunt

Children searching for chocolate on an Easter Egg hunt found a hand grenade instead. Police called in the bomb squad to explode the device after kids found it lying in a field. Shocked dad Stuart Moffatt raised the alarm after he saw a young boy standing on the grenade during the egg hunt near Holford, Somerset.


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Around 25 children aged between two and five were at the event, which had been organised by a local pre-school group. And the grenade was in the grass just feet away from a public car park when it was spotted. Stuart, 34, told the hunt's organiser what he had seen and they slowly moved the children away from the scene.

Mr Moffatt, who had been at the event with wife Victoria, 35, and children Nelly, five, Isla, two, and 11-month-old Freddie, said: "I was shocked. It's the last thing you could possibly want to find with children about. We were beginning to count the eggs up at the end of the hunt and I saw a young boy, around three-years-old, standing on an object.


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“On closer inspection we realised it looked like a hand grenade. It was brown and about three or four inches high. The boy who was standing on it just thought it was a rock. It could have been a lot worse, especially with children around." Avon and Somerset Police confirmed the grenade had been destroyed and bomb disposal teams declared the area safe.