Although the devices found during construction work were practice bombs, they can be harmful. Officials said there could be ...

The unexploded ordnance, discovered during a site renovation, were described as “practice bombs” that still carry a charge ...

January, almost 200 bombs were discovered in Wooler, a town in the north of England. A total of 176 bombs dating back to the ...

A chance discovery led officials in northern England to uncover more than 100 practice bombs from World War II buried underneath a playground.

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England ...

It’s quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs and it’s been a really challenging situation,” Wooler councilor Mark Mather said.

Over 160 unexploded practice bombs dating all the way back to World War II have been discovered underneath a children’s playground in the United Kingdom, officials said.

A playground expansion in a small England town turned up a massive stockpile of unexploded World War II-era "practice" bombs.

Locals believe there will be more ordnance found in Wooler, Northumberland, on top of the nearly 200 bombs recovered at what ...

"It's quite something to think the children have been playing on bombs," a Wooler councillor says.

So far, 176 bombs have been recovered in the area, and excavators working in the area are expected to find many more.

It is believed the area where the playground was initially built was used as a Home Guard training ground and the bombs were buried at the end of the war.