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Bomb disposal teams were called out to Broadstairs beach after an unexploded device was found.
The ordnance, believed to have been a wartime grenade, was detonated in a controlled explosion by Army experts this evening.
It is not yet known how the device was discovered, or whether it posed a risk to the public.
Kent Police and the Ministry of Defence have been contacted for comment.