Bomb disposal experts cordoned off the beach to deactivate the first mine which measured some 20 inches in diameter. They then found another mine nearby, a police spokesman in the northeastern city of Girona said. The second mine was due to be deactivated Monday. "The first one appeared on July 2 and it was deactivated … today they found another one 500 meters (1,640 ft) away from the first," he said. "It looks like they come from the Second World War," he added.
Spain did not take part in the 1939 to 1945 Second World War but the stretch of the Mediterranean where the mines were found is close to the French border.