Boy finds live grenade during Easter egg hunt in England

Grenade believed to be WWII relic from old American Army base

Many toddlers have hunted for Easter eggs in the past few days, but one in England found a live grenade while searching a field.

More than two dozen kids between the ages of two and five were searching a field in Holford, in southwest England, when a dad saw a boy standing on something, reports the Daily Mail.

"We were beginning to count up the eggs at the end of the hunt and I saw a boy of three standing on an object. It was brown and about four inches high. It looked like an Easter egg, but it was a hand grenade," said Stuart Moffatt, 34, to the British press. "I was shocked. The boy who was standing on it thought it was a rock."

Moffatt quickly told organizers who alerted the police and soon after the bomb squad arrived.

The police cordoned everything within 100 metres of the grenade, which included part of a road, and carried out a controlled explosion, reports This Is Somerset. The highway was reopened a few hours later.

"The EOD (Explosives Ordinance Disposal) has attended the scene and destroyed the object in a controlled explosion," said an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman.

The grenade is believed to be leftover from the Second World War.

"Apparently there used to be an American Army base in Holford during the Second World War," said Paul Gibbard, who was at the hunt with his daughters, to the Daily Mail. "I think it has something to do with that."

(Reuters photo)