Residents told to stay indoors with bomb disposal units called after 'suspicious item' found by child in canal
manchestereveningnews.co.ukResidents were told to 'stay indoors' as streets were cordoned off by police following the discovery of a 'suspicious item' in a canal.
Emergency services, including police and fire crews, along with explosives units, descended on Shawhill Walk, in Miles Platting, shortly after 3.30pm on Wednesday (July 10).
It followed reports that a child, who was thought to have been magnet fishing in the Ashton Canal, pulled up a device, thought to be a suspected grenade. READ MORE Murder suspect Kyle Clifford found and taken to hospital after huge police manhunt Police were called to the scene and taped off Shawhill Road and Gleden Street.
Residents told the Manchester Evening News how officers knocked on their doors and told them to stay inside. "We were told it was a world war two hand grenade," one of the local residents said. "One of our neighbour's kids found it magnet fishing.
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