Explosives experts were called to a construction site in Mikkeli, eastern Finland, on Tuesday following the apparent discovery of an unexploded wartime bomb.
Workers carrying out excavation work on Highway 5, one kilometre from the centre of town, struck a metal device with a digger on Tuesday at midday. Experts confirmed that it was a flying bomb from World War 2.
Police sealed off the area and called in an army bomb-disposal team to try and make the bomb safe. On closer inspection experts discovered the find was just a shell, and therefore not explosive.
Discoveries of wartime munitions are fairly common in Mikkeli, which served as a headquarters during the war and was subjected to heavy bombing. Just one week ago a diver came across a wartime hand grenade submerged in shallow water near to a local swimming area.