{"id":628913,"date":"2025-12-12T20:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:47:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:47:32","slug":"police-explain-why-cordon-erected-in-north-wales-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/628913\/","title":{"rendered":"Police explain why cordon erected in North Wales village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The area was cordoned off after a suspected mortar shell was found<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Police-cordon-in-place-off-Beach-Road-Bangor-following-reports-of-a-large-scale-incident-on-Tuesda.jpeg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Police cordon(Image: Ian Cooper\/North Wales Live)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A street was cordoned off in a North Wales village after a suspected mortar shell was found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The alert was raised yesterday in the village of Acrefair, in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/all-about\/wrexham\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Wrexham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Residents say they understood the &#8220;bomb&#8221; was found by a telecoms engineer during routine work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police were called and the bomb disposal unit was sent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A cordon was placed around the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A spokesperson for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/all-about\/north-wales-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">North Wales Police<\/a> said: &#8220;Shortly before 12.30pm today we received a call reporting a suspicious item found close to Chapel Street, Acrefair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_dpw121225acer.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Chapel Street, Acrefair, Wrexham<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;The report suggested the item may have been a mortar shell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;As a precaution, officers attended and imposed a temporary cordon at the location for public safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Explosive Ordnance Disposal experts also attended and conducted a controlled detonation of the object.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\"><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypost.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=da31e0f9-0bf2-4091-bc59-f8c65b1f2341&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Sign up for the North Wales Live newsletter<\/a> sent twice daily to your inbox<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The area was cordoned off after a suspected mortar shell was foundPolice cordon(Image: Ian Cooper\/North Wales Live) A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,23824,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-628913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-north-wales-police","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115708562927911270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}