Police in Hong Kong have destroyed a First World War hand grenade found inside a shipment of potatoes.
The grenade was found at a food processing facility after arriving from France.
Employees at the facility reported a suspicious object encased in mud.
The bomb squad concluded that the 2.2lb object was a hand grenade, possibly made in Germany.
Wong Ho-hon, Tseung Kwan O police assistant district commander told the South China Morning Post: “We identified it as a German-made weapon believed to have been used during the first world war.
“We chose to disarm it because it had not exploded at the time it was thrown so there was an immediate need to do so. We did it using a high-pressure water firing technique.”
Dave Macri, a military historian told the SCMP: “The grenade was likely to have been left behind, dropped by soldiers there during the war.”
Last year, two World War Two bombs were found in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai district.
They were found to be US bombs, dropped during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1942.
