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Police call explosive removal experts to Fincampstead home

by Phil Creighton
June 19, 2020
in Featured, Finchampstead, Wokingham
Orbit Close

Police officers were called to Orbit Close in Finchampstead on Wednesday

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POLICE officers called to a Finchampstead street had to bring in explosive removal experts.

They were investigating a find at Orbit Close on Wednesday, June 17. 

Officers said they were looking at a “non-recent military ordnance” – munitions of some kind – and needed to call on back-up to ensure it could be removed safely. 

A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said: “We were called to an address in Orbit Close, Finchampstead, on Wednesday, June 17, at 2.51pm after an item of non-recent military ordnance at a property.

“The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team from Ministry of Defence were called to the scene and they removed the item to a safe place and safely disposed the ordnance.”

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