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World / Sunshine Coast, QLD

Shock wake-up for residents as WWII shell detonated on beach

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Disasters and HazardsWorld War Ii

Residents on Queensland's Sunshine Coast were woken in shock by an early morning blast when the Defence Force detonated an unexploded World War II-era shell found on a beach.

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