Mystery Bangs Were ‘Mortar Style Fireworks’

Several eye witnesses have been in touch to say they believe the two huge bangs heard in the area last night were ‘display calibre’ fireworks being let off.

One person with a vista of the area from their apartment told us: “There were two huge mortar style fireworks, I have experience in displays and they were very high, very big and very loud.”

“Two were let off from the Pen-Y-Bryn area, possibly by St Giles school or even across as far as Bellevue Park however it is hard to say looking out in a split second in the dark.”

“The shower of sparks was visible with the boom and height indicating it was certainly display mortar style calibre fireworks rather than ones sold to the public.”

The first bang was at 10:35pm, the second was at 11:13pm. The bangs were audible across the town, with people in Rossett and Gresford also in touch saying they heard them.

Social media lit up with the bangs going off with hundreds of comments to our twitter and Facebook pages. 380+ comments were left on this Facebook picture comment thread that reached 60,000 people – you can review tweets here in our archive.

North Wales Police told us this morning they had ‘no reports’ of any related incident.

Bang speculation stakes: #1 is Fireworks, Jets responding to Russians, various dropped wallets jokes, 'ICE IS' (whoever they are) & aliens.

— Wrexham.com (@wrexham) August 21, 2016

Some of the more interesting theories included this gem:

@DanJones_04 @wrexham Yes, it's the annual celebration of the knocking down of the old Hightown flats #WeWillRememberThem 🏙 🎆

— Matty Webber (@MattyWebber88) August 21, 2016

Pic: Fireworks, not the ones last night!