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<\/p>\nA French onion delivery made eyes water more than usual when Dutch authorities discovered two hand grenades hidden among the vegetables, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Dutch authorities asked the OPCW to examine the find.<\/p>\n
“The projectiles were identified to be consistent with pre-1925 French and German manufactured old chemical weapons,” the Hague-based organization concluded after investigating the case.<\/p>\n
“However, the type of chemical fill could not be identified,” it added in a statement.<\/p>\n
The reason for the weapons’ presence in the delivery remains a mystery.<\/p>\n
The grenades will be destroyed, but since the Netherlands lacks a dedicated destruction facility for this type of object, they will be “transferred as toxic waste to the specialized chemical dismantling facility in Poelkapelle, Belgium,” the OPCW said.<\/p>\n
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This photograph taken on May 19, 2025 shows an old First World War shell in a X-Ray device to determine if it still contains toxic chemicals, at the DOVO demining team base camp in Poelkapelle, Belgium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NICOLAS TUCAT\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Netherlands thanked the Belgian authorities for their help.<\/p>\n