Police Clear South Tenerife Beach

Police cleared the beach at Playa del Duque on the Costa Adeje in south Tenerife yesterday afternoon, after some tourists discovered "an explosive artefact"; an unusual cylindrical object containing phosphorous, which turned out to be an electronic piece from an US military vessel and "could be something to do with instruments used for locating submarines", says the report.

Police commissioner, Luis Carrión said that it was an "incendiary device of military use". The object had been washed up on the beach by the currents. The area was cordoned off, while bomb disposal experts detonated the piece in two controlled explosions. What's left has been taken to Santa Cruz to be analysed, to find out where it came from and who might have abandoned it.

Desalojan una playa en Costa Adeje para explosionar un artefacto

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