A family narrowly escaped disaster after unknowingly playing near a World War II bomb on a beach in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire. Kelly Gravell and her two young children mistook the seaweed-covered device for a buoy during a beach outing. Photos show six-year-old Erin and four-year-old Ellis jumping on the object, unaware of the danger.

Five days later, rangers identified the object as a 70-year-old unexploded mine. A bomb squad safely carried out a controlled detonation, captured in dramatic footage. The children’s father, Gareth, tweeted about the incident, joking, “So the buoy my kids were jumping on all weekend turns out to be a WWII bomb. Oops.”