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At the Rheinbord in Basel, construction workers discovered a grenade while dredging on Friday night around 6 p.m. The site of the discovery is on the Grenzacher promenade, the Basel-City cantonal police said at night.
World War I bullet
On Friday night, the authorities had to close the Grenzacherstrasse between Allmenstrasse and Solitude and, with the support of the Basel-Landschaft police, Birsköpfli on the opposite side of the Rhine until midnight.
The specialists suppose an explosive device of German origin from the First World War. It was approximately 65 in length and 18 centimeters in diameter, he said.
Request to residents
The rescue and removal would be carried out by specialists from the Swiss army on Saturday morning. Then it would be blocked again, it said. Residents of neighboring properties would have to open windows on the Rhine side and keep stores closed, authorities said.
The Basel-City Cantonal Police, the Basel-City Fire Brigade and Ambulance, as well as specialists from the Swiss Army were deployed.
SRF News 4, 7 a.m. SRF / sda / halp
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