Unidentified object explodes in field in eastern Poland

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WARSAW (Reuters) -An unidentified object fell into a cornfield and exploded overnight in the village of Osiny in eastern Poland's Lublin province, which borders Ukraine, police said on Wednesday.

The blast shattered windows in several homes, but nobody was injured, the report said. Police officers found burnt metal and plastic debris at the site, it added.

Air raid sirens rang out for about an hour over the border in Ukraine's Volyn and Lviv regions from around 0900 GMT, according to messages from its military posted on Telegram.

There were no reports of air attacks in those regions, their governors said.

"We are trying to establish what the object could be. Police and firefighters are on the scene," Lukow county police spokesperson Marek Jozwik said.

(Reporting by Marek Strzelecki and Alan Charlish in Warsaw, Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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