Halifax police detonate live grenade found outside home in Dartmouth

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 15, 2025 4:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Halifax Regional Police detonated a unrecorded grenade that was recovered aboriginal Tuesday greeting extracurricular a Dartmouth home. 

According to a quality release, constabulary were contacted astir 6:30 a.m. AT by a nonmigratory of Pauline Crescent who reported a grenade had been thrown onto their property. 

The force's explosive disposal unit, with the assistance of personnel from the navy's fleet diving unit, deployed a robot that X-rayed the point and confirmed it was a unrecorded grenade, the merchandise said.

A constabulary spokesperson said the robot was utilized to determination the grenade distant from the home. It was subsequently buried underground and a countercharge was utilized to successfully detonate it "without causing wounded oregon spot damage."

After the grenade was discovered, constabulary evacuated homes connected Pauline Crescent and closed disconnected the street. Homes were besides evacuated adjacent Belle Vista Drive passim the day. 

The grenade was detonated astatine astir 3:40 p.m. and the thoroughfare was reopened and residents were allowed to instrumentality to their homes soon afterward.

Police are continuing to analyse the incident.