Bomb disposal experts deal with Paignton rock pool flare
BOMB disposal experts were called to Saltern Cove after a Paignton couple discovered a suspicious device in a rock pool.
Barry and Lee Hayward were walking when they spotted the military device (pictured) stuck in between rocks.
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The Torbay coastguard team secured the area and alerted the Royal Navy's bomb disposal team in Plymouth.
A coastguard spokesman said: "It was a military parachute distress flare.
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"The explosive ordnance department attended and disposed of the device on the beach."
Lee said: "It was on Monday at about 3pm. We saw this green cannister in a rock pool and phoned the coastguard.
"Then we waited nearby because we thought it would be really difficult for them to find it among all the rocks."
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