Woman Finds WWII Grenade in  Groceries
AP
 
ROME (Feb. 28) - A woman in a town near Naples got an  unwelcome surprise 
when she bought a sack of potatoes at a nearby market, put  them into water to 
peel and discovered one of them was a hand grenade apparently  left over from 
World War II. 

Olga Mauriello had put the potatoes in a  vat of water and had just begun 
peeling them Tuesday when she found the  explosive, covered in dirt, police said 
Wednesday. 

An alarmed Mauriello,  74, called neighbors, who in turn called police. 

Officers detonated the  grenade in a park on Wednesday, state police said. 

The grenade was  believed to have traveled with the potatoes from France, the 
ANSA news agency  reported. 


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