Explosive devices found in rural Ontario

Explosive devices found in rural Ontario

Last Updated: Sunday, August 5, 2007 | 1:27 PM ET

CBC News

Military bomb disposal experts were called to a rural area in southwestern Ontario on Saturday to blow up two explosive devices found in a creek.

One of the objects was discovered around 3:30 p.m. Friday by a woman walking with her two daughters and their dog near Strathroy, 40 kilometres west of London.

The devices were found in a shallow part of the creek near a culvert.The devices were found in a shallow part of the creek near a culvert.

(Bryan Lumley)

Local police sent photos of the device to the Ontario Provincial Police and military officials, who confirmed it was a piece of military ordnance, possibly an old anti-tank mine.

Ontario Provincial Police cordoned off the area and called in officers from Canadian Forces Base Borden north of Toronto, who found a second device in the water about two metres from the first one on Saturday morning.