Police say a bomb squad was called to an Illinois home to remove a decades-old grenade discovered by a construction crew.
Authorities said the "old war relic" may have been a training grenade from World War II, CNN reported.
The home in Westchester was undergoing renovations on September 7 when a construction crew discovered "what they believed was essentially a war-time grenade," Westchester Police Department Detective Sergeant Michael Fellers told CNN.
The crew was able to move the grenade outside and notified the Westchester police, who called the Cook County Bomb Squad to remove the grenade, the Village of Westchester said in a Facebook post. The grenade was then destroyed, CNN reported.
The grenade's explosion "would have been like a big firecracker," Fellers told CNN. Authorities believe it was a WWII training grenade, which would still contain a detonating charge that could be dangerous, the outlet reported.
