Civil War shell turns up close to school on Spain holiday island Mallorca

DUMPED: The shell was left in the street next to a rubbish skip CREDIT: SUP Baleares Twitter @SUPBaleares

A SHELL believed to date back to the Spanish Civil War turned up in an area near to a school in Mallorca capital Palma on Saturday night, Balearic Island police reported.
Officers cordoned of the zone in the vicinity of the Palma plant nursery while a TEDAX bomb disposal unit went in to deactivate the device.
According to Spanish press a local resident alerted the police after coming across the projectile abandoned in the street next to a rubbish skip.
An investigation is underway to find out how the shell got there.

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