Century-old hand grenades found hidden in a French onion delivery in the Netherlands

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Wednesday that a French onion shipment sparked more tears than usual when Dutch authorities discovered two hand grenades hidden among the vegetables.

The grenades, dating back to 1925, were found in a shipment of onions heading from France to a factory in the province of Zeeland, in the northern Netherlands.

The Dutch authorities asked the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to examine the discovery.

The Hague-based organization concluded after investigating the case that “the projectiles were determined to be compatible with old chemical weapons manufactured by France and Germany before 1925.”

“But it was not possible to determine the type of chemical,” she added in a statement.

The reason for the presence of weapons during delivery remains a mystery.

The OPCW said the grenades would be destroyed, but since the Netherlands does not have a dedicated destruction facility for this type of thing, they would be “transferred as toxic waste to a specialized chemical dismantling facility in Boelkapel, Belgium.”

The Netherlands thanked the Belgian authorities for their assistance.

This strange discovery came just days after a live grenade was thrown Found by a little boy In the front yard of his family’s home in Washington state. Authorities said a 3-year-old boy discovered a hand grenade dating back to World War II, and a team of bomb disposal experts removed and disposed of the explosives. No one was injured, according to the sheriff’s office.