A bomb squad has been called to a South Carolina beach after Hurricane Matthew apparently unearthed US civil war cannonballs from the sand. The first shots of the war were fired at nearby Fort Sumter in 1861. Charleston county sheriff’s spokesman Major Eric Watson said the cannonballs were found at Folly Beach on Sunday afternoon. Bomb squad members could not immediately reach the area because of the rising tide. The storm killed nearly 900 people in Haiti and at least 18 in the US, nearly half of them in North Carolina.

Source: The Guardian October 10, 2016 09:16 UTC