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Hundreds of small explosives found in waterway

Robin Webster/Geograph The River Nene upstream of South Bridge, Northampton, showing a factory on the right and some flats in the distance on the left.Robin Webster/Geograph
A person was cleaning around the River Nene area near Carlsberg in Northampton when they discovered the explosives

Hundreds of small explosives have been recovered from a waterway by a bomb disposal team.

The railway detonators were found by a person cleaning in the River Nene area close to the Carlsberg brewery off Bridge Street, Northampton, on Sunday.

Police closed the road at 16:00 BST for three-and-a-half hours while the emergency team worked at the scene.

A total of 379 detonators, used as a loud warning signal to train drivers, were collected and taken away from the site, Northamptonshire Police said.

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