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Following the discovery, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) was called in and removed 101 US 105mm High Explosive Projectiles from the site. Police say they were being stored securely while work was done to defuse the bombs.
“A man in eastern Honiara has just found over 100 WW2 shells in his back garden digging a hole for a new septic system,” wrote Lachlan Strahan, Australia’s high commissioner to Solomon Islands on Twitter. “Australia’s explosive ordnance disposal expert Warrant Officer Ian Percy is helping the Royal Police Force to deal with this terrible WW2 legacy.”
Over 100 WWII-era shells found in Solomon Islands
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The Guardian, HONIARA
One hundred and one World War II artillery shells have been discovered in a backyard of a home in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands in the south Pacific.
The unexploded ordnances were found by a man who was digging a hole for a new septic system at his property in a residential area.
Following the discovery, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force was called in and removed 101 US 105mm high-explosive projectiles from the site.
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