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Buttelstedt (dpa / th) - A ten-year-old boy found a grenade while playing on a stream in Buttelstedt (Weimarer Land district), as the police announced on Wednesday.

The day before, the child informed his mother about the strange object, which the police called.

Specialists from a munitions clearance service identified the find as explosives.

It was professionally recovered and removed.

According to the police, it was still unclear where the grenade came from.

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