#7 Wednesday 8/21: WW2 bombs discovered

 This is right by our hospital:

My brother Kurt's response to Richard's message above, " They found this when digging for sewage? Glad you didn't have a movement at this location."

You can find more info about this story here. from The Guardian's website:

More than 200 unexploded second would war shells found near Solomon Islands school

Workers at a school in Solomon Islands discovered a buried stockpile of the second world war munitions as they “dug a hole for sewage”, police said.

More than 200 rust-caked projectiles – which once belonged to US troops – have been dug up and removed after they were found near a school staff member’s house, the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force said.

Japan and the United States fought viciously to control Solomon Islands at the height of the second world war, littering the South Pacific archipelago with unexploded ordnance – or UXOs – that still take lives today.

On Tuesday, Inspector Clifford Tunuki said the long-hidden weapons cache had been ferried away to a safe location and was now “waiting for safe destruction”.

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The discovery was an “eye opener”, he said.

“The removal came about when the school discovered the stockpile of US projectiles in front of a staff house when they dug a hole for sewage,” police said in a statement.

The school in Solomon Islands capital Honiara suspended classes for several days, the Solomon Star reported.

Photos showed police removing the heavily corroded munitions by hand after digging them out with a shovel.