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Hand grenade found in Lewis County trash

The Columbian
Published: April 19, 2010, 12:00am

CENTRALIA, Wash. (AP) — Lewis County solid waste workers were pushing garbage into truck trailers at the Centralia transfer station when they came across a hand grenade.

Officer Steve Phipps told KITI Radio it looked like a World War II-style pineapple grenade with a pin in it.

A bomb squad detonated it Saturday at a Chehalis firing range. There was no secondary explosion, so it may have been a disarmed souvenir or a training device.

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Information from: KITI-AM, http://www.live95.com/

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