A boy and a girl fished a hand grenade from World War II out of the Alster. The eleven-year-olds were on "treasure hunt" according to the police.
In Hamburg Eppendorf they had a magnet on a fishing line left on Saturday, said a police spokesman on Sunday. That's how they pulled the grenade out of the water.
Because there was no security pin on the heavily rusted explosive device, it was blown up on Saturday night by the ordnance clearance service in a container. Nobody was injured in the incident at Hayns Park.
Not the first catch
The "Hamburger Morgenpost" According to the children had before the grenade, among other things, already fished a cell phone and a bicycle chain out of the water. In the grenade, they had first asked passers-by, what kind of object that was, according to the newspaper article. But they would not have grasped the strange catch.
According to the "Morgenpost", the ordnance clearance service indicates that magnetic fishing is subject to licensing: the risk of encountering dangerous objects at the Alster is high.