Explosive device found on Mar Menor beach
Sunday, May 21, 2017 @ 7:25 PM
EXPLOSIVES experts have detonated a phosphorus flare found by a man catching the rays on Estacio beach in La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia).
He contacted the Guardia Civil when he saw what looked like a bomb on the sand, but which turned out to be an unfired signal flare.
In its unexploded state, however, it was still potentially dangerous, so divers from the EOD detonation squad were called in.
They removed it safely and took it to the Guardia Civil headquarters in Cartagena to neutralise it.
The Guardia Civil, who are military-trained police, have a bomb-detonation diving team in-house, which works with the Naval Anti-Mine Measures Diving Unit – the UBMCM – as well as the land-based explosives team, TEDAX.
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