Mass. fishermen dredge up 100 grenades in clam haul The Lowell Sun
Updated: 04/24/2010 12:46:30 AM EDT
NEW BEDFORD (AP) -- Authorities say Massachusetts workers sorting through a catch of sea clams found more than 100 hand grenades in New Bedford, triggering an evacuation of the area and a response from U.S. Navy bomb experts.
New Bedford Police Lt. Steve Forand said on Friday that the explosives were found on Thursday. He did not have information on whether the grenades were live, how they ended up in the sea and for how long they had been submerged under water.
Police say experts from the U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group had secured the scene and were in charge of the situation Friday.
A U.S. Navy regional spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment after business hours.
New Bedford, a city of around 100,000 on the Atlantic coast's Buzzards Bay, was once one of the busiest fishing and shipping ports in the world.
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