A family in Wales have made the headlines after their two kids played with what they thought was a buoy, but in fact turned out to be a World War II bomb.
Mum Kelly Gravell took pictures and videos of her son and daughter playing with the ‘buoy’ not realising that it was something more sinister, until a few days later.
“We were more fascinated by the barnacles on it. My son was touching it and was knocking on it a little bit, and that was it really,” Kelly told ABC News.
However, a few days after their trip, the family found out that it was a United States military mine bomb, which dates back to WWII.
“The realisation that it was a bomb — it was completely shocking for us. We realise now just how lucky we were," she admitted.
So the bouy my kids were jumping on all weekend turns out to be a WW11 bomb. Oops!! @LlanelliStar pic.twitter.com/UPDkts6wQt
— gareth gravell (@Gar_Grav) August 17, 2015
Explaining that it is common for buoys to wash up in the area, Allison Thomas-David from Carmarthenshire County Council, said: “It very much looks like a buoy - which we get on the regular - but around it was gooseneck barnacles."
"Of course as the barnacles started dropping off, that’s when we could see writings exposed,” she added.
The bomb was later detonated in a controlled explosion and no one was hurt.
