Crime
WWII Mortar Made Safe in Fivemiletown Field
A World War Two mortar was discovered in a field off Colebrook Road in Fivemiletown on Sunday, April 12. A member of the public found the object and reported it to police.
Officers attended the scene. Ammunition Technical Officers made the item safe. Police identified it as a mortar from the Second World War, which ran from September 1939 to September 1945.
Fivemiletown is in Fermanagh. The area hosted US Army troops at Blessingbourne Estate in the 1940s.
Sources: Fermanagh Herald, We Are Tyrone