NIMROD, Minn. (KFGO) – The Wadena County Sheriff’s office dealt with a possible live mortar Sunday.
Dispatch received a call from someone who said they had located a mortar, that was possibly live. The caller said they were at the Nimrod Bar in Nimrod.
Deputies found that people had been at the Shell City Bridge with a metal detector and located the mortar. They placed it in their vehicle and brought it to the Nimrod Bar to show others. Contact was made with the Crow Wing County Bomb Squad. It responded to the scene and took possession of the mortar.
At the time of them taking possession of the mortar, it was unknown if the device was still live. It could possibly be from the Korean War Era.
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