Police: Live cluster bomblet, ammunition found with donation at southeastern Wisconsin thrift store

JANESVILLE, Wis. — A are living cluster bomblet and ammunition were found in a donation dropped off at a thrift store in southeastern Wisconsin.

An worker at the Janesville Goodwill made the invention whilst undertaking stock Friday morning, consistent with the Janesville Police Department.

The store and surrounding space have been evacuated as a bomb squad used to be known as in to take away the small bomb and ammunition.

“Employees temporarily adopted protection protocols by way of informing store and donation middle control and protection groups who then evacuated the development out of precaution for customers, donors and staff,” Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin said in a statement to WKOW-TV.

The store and donation center resumed operations shortly after 1:30 p.m. Friday, the statement continued.

Bomblets are part of cluster bombs which contain multiple explosive submunitions. Used during battle, the bombs can be dropped from planes or fired from the ground. Janesville police were trying to determine who left the bomblet and ammunition at the Goodwill store.

Janesville is ready 76 miles (122 kilometers) southwest of Milwaukee.