Dutch make explosive discovery in French onion delivery

The Hague: A French onion delivery made eyes water more than usual when Dutch authorities discovered two hand grenades hidden among the vegetables, th...

The Hague: A French onion delivery made eyes water more than usual when Dutch authorities discovered two hand grenades hidden among the vegetables, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Wednesday.

The grenades, dating from 1925, were found in a consignment of onions heading from France to a factory in the northern Dutch province of Zeeland.

Dutch authorities asked the OPCW to examine the find.

"The projectiles were identified to be consistent with pre-1925 French and German manufactured old chemical weapons," The Hague-based organisation concluded after peeling back the layers of the case.

"However, the type of chemical fill could not be identified," it added in a statement.