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Bomb alert off Folly Farm Gardens, Canterbury after discovery of suspected wartime device
20:21, 31 March 2021
updated: 20:23, 31 March 2021
The discovery of a suspected wartime device sparked a bomb alert this afternoon.
Emergency services were called to a building site off Folly Farm Gardens, Canterbury, after what was believed to be a Second World War munition was found.
The Army was called in to help and at about 6pm the device was detonated in a controlled explosion.
It was carried out by members of the Royal Logistics Corps.
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