A BOMB disposal unit were called by Essex Police to a towerblock in Southend.
The team from Explosive Ordnance Disposal where called in after police searching a flat in the Malvern block in Coleman Road, were a 45-year-old was murdered last week, discovered a metal tin filled with gunpowder.
Four flats were evacuated while the unit worked to dispose of the tin.
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