direct to your inbox This is the moment a suspected mortar round was pulled from a canal sparking a major alert.
The drama unfolded when a fisherman made the discovery in a stretch of the Ashton Canal near Edge Lane in Droylsden on Sunday afternoon.
Video sent to the Manchester Evening News shows the moment the angler pulled the historic device from the water attached to a fishing line.
The police were informed and a cordon was immediately put in place around the scene, on the border with Openshaw in east Manchester.Fire crews and paramedics also attended whilst the bomb squad were summoned to come and examine it.Following examinations by personnel from the Royal Logistic Corps bomb disposal unit, whose van was seen parked at the scene, it.
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