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A North Shore public safety building was evacuated Monday after a resident brought what seemed to be an unexploded mortar ...

Essex's public safety building briefly turned into the scene of a bomb scare Monday afternoon when a resident walked into the lobby holding what they thought was an unexploded mortar shell. Police and ...

The device turned out to be an empty fuel canister that resembles an aged and rusting mortar shell, police said Monday.

A live mortar shell was safely defused by security forces in Brari village near the Line of Control in Poonch. The shell, fired from across the border, was found unexploded by a resident. Security ...