The playground is now being excavated and the area is off limits. Construction workers have now discovered dozens of World War II era bombs buried underneath the childrens’ play area. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00This is a playground in Wooler, a town in Northern England.
00:03It is now being excavated, and the area is off-limits,
00:06as construction workers have discovered dozens of World War II-era bombs buried underneath.
00:12The playground was being renovated when the first two bombs were discovered,
00:15with county councillor Mark Mather saying,
00:17initially they were excited at the historical find,
00:20though the governing body wrote in a statement,
00:22quote,
00:22but it soon became apparent that the scale of the problem was far greater than anyone had anticipated.
00:27That's because after they found the first, they found more, and more,
00:31eventually uncovering more than 175 of the antique explosives.
00:36Luckily for excavators, the devices are practice bombs,
00:39however they are still dangerous as they still have an explosive charge,
00:43with the council's statement adding that they have been found with their fuse and content still intact,
00:47and the detonator, burster, and smoke filling in particular can still be potentially hazardous.
00:52The area was once a training ground for the Home Guard,
00:55a volunteer citizen militia,
00:56which was intended to fend off a potential German invasion during World War II.