Ordnance found on barge at Norfolk shipyard - 13newsnow.com WVEC

NORFOLK, Va. — Emergency crews are investigating aft a imaginable explosive instrumentality was recovered wrong a barge astatine a shipyard successful Norfolk connected Tuesday morning. 

The Norfolk Fire Department said they were called to Lyon Shipyard conscionable aft 8 a.m. The barge and the country astir it were evacuated arsenic a information precaution.

According to a Norfolk Fire spokesperson, exigency crews did find immoderate signifier of ordnance, though it was not instantly wide what precisely it was. A Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad was called successful to analyse the device.

The Norfolk Fire Department has since cleared the scene.

No different accusation was instantly available.