Two men in their 60s were hospitalized in Poland after a World War II artillery shell that one of them had found in a forest and brought back home exploded. Both men had been drinking alcohol, police said, and one of them was significantly over the legal limit for driving in the country when he was found in the damaged apartment.

Police in Głubczyce, a community of roughly 12,000 in southwestern Poland, received reports at about 7:30 a.m. on October 21 of a window seen hanging off an apartment building, as though it had been blown out from within.

Officers, along with bomb-sniffing dogs and counterterrorism experts, were dispatched to the scene, where they evacuated the residents of the building and surrounding houses.

Police investigate reports of an explosion after a World War II ordi

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