Succinic proved a trotylbomb – Express

In one year, Leif Brost, 74, the Amber Museum in Skåne Kämpinge a trotylbomb lying in the storeroom.

– I got it from a fisherman who thought it was amber, he said.

When the police found out, they sent out bomb group and took care about it.

Leif got the brown, shapeless lump of a fisherman who in turn had received it from a colleague. It had originally caught in a trawl somewhere in the Baltic Sea.

– It weighs well 2.5 kg and is the size of a sugar beet or half a football, he said.

– I was a little suspicious of it weighed twice as much as it should if it had been amber. But I did not know what I would do with it, and so became the only landscape. You can not keep everything.

Hazardous waste

Leif Brost thought about letting the lump form part of an exhibition on marine litter in the museum premises. And on Sunday had Vellinge environmental office open house on hazardous waste so he took a picture of the lump and showed up.

– They looked at the picture and advised me to contact the police, he said.

At noon on Tuesday came as Skåne police bomb group and took the lump, which Trelleborgs Allehanda was the first to tell you.

The police gave Leif Brost told that it was TNT – but that there was no greater risk of dealing with it because it required an igniter for triggering explosive if it is still possible to detonate.

Unknown Age

No one knows how old the bomb is.

– It will come from a war but if it is World War II or something else I do not know, says Leif.

– It has probably been an iron casing around the beginning but everything was removed rusted now.

Leif Brost says that he has handled the explosives when he did his military service as FROGMAN around in 1961.

– But when we had the TNT was in the form of rods, he said.