Fishing crew finds wartime mine

The World War II mine will be exploded offshore on Saturday

A suspected unexploded bomb, netted by a fishing boat crew off the south Wales coast, has been identified as a World War II mine.

Experts from the Naval Ordnance team from Plymouth have been attempting to sink the 1,800kg mine to the sea bed off Mumbles near Swansea.

They plan to explode the mine on Saturday morning.

The crew of the fishing boat, called Girl Eileen 2, was a mile off the shore between Mumbles and Swansea Docks.