Watch: Mortar shell controlled explosion on beach

Video showed the moment a mortar shell was destroyed in a controlled explosion on a beach.

Gorleston Coastguard said it was called to help bomb disposal experts safely neutralise the device just north of Lowestoft on the Suffolk-Norfolk border on Thursday.

"The shell had been found inland and brought to the beach. However, unexploded ordnance is often found on our coastline," it said in a post on social media.

It urged people to call 999 if they spot something on a beach they are unsure about or suspect could be unexploded ordnance, and to not touch or move the object.

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