Live artillery shell just misses village and explodes in field
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The explosion left a 6ft-wide crater and sent debris flying for up to 40ft.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said live firing exercises at Salisbury had been suspended, The Daily Telegraph reported.
Farmer Andrew Snook, 55, found the crater in a field of maize on Friday last week, but it was actually fired two days before.
“There was a lot of heavy firing going on and this one blast did really make me wince. I thought, that’s close. It must have come over a couple of villages to get here,” he said.
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