Pair stray into bomb site

TWO people were found walking along a footpath inside a cordon set up around an unexploded bomb near Widewater, Lancing, on Thursday night.

The Sussex Police and ambulance helicopter was scrambled to check the area after a member of the public had found a piece of unexploded bomb earlier in the evening.

The bomb disposal unit set up a cordon but the helicopter's infra-red thermal camera picked up two people on a footpath inside the cordon.

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Police officers found them and moved them off the footpath before the unit detonated the bomb.

Acting police sergeant Andy McMahon said: "We thought we would let residents know what we were doing due to the noise from the helicopter over a built-up area at night."

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