Pupil takes WWII shell to school

A 12-year-old boy who took a World War II-era anti-aircraft shell with him to school in Wroclaw, southern Poland, this morning, was being questioned by police after the evacuation of 400 pupils.

"Police removed the WWII shell from the school after some 400 pupils had been safely evacuated and we are questioning the 12-year-old as to where he obtained it and what he intended to do with it," Wroclaw police spokesman Kamil Rynkiewicz told AFP.

The shell was handed over to a bomb squad unit for disposal, he said.

Unexploded bombs and shells dating from World War II are routinely found in Poland, the site of some of the fiercest wartime fighting.