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HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated Friday after a World War II bomb was found at a Hong Kong construction site, police said, the third such discovery in the territory this year. Police cordoned off roads and evacuated some 1,200 people from shops, restaurants, and offices in the bustling Wanchai business district as experts sought to unearth and defuse the 450-kilogram (1,000-pound) US-made bomb. The ordinance, which had laid dormant for […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — About 10,000 people in Berlin were forced to leave their homes on Monday as bomb disposal units prepared to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb. Construction workers found the 250-kilo (550-pound) device earlier in the day, prompting police to seal off the area within a 500-metre radius of the site in west Berlin’s Innsbrucker Platz. Underground and suburban rail traffic was disrupted, and officers went house to house to ensure […]
HONG KONG, China (Reuters) — An unexploded World War II bomb was detonated in a Hong Kong construction site in the early hours of Tuesday (January 24) morning, according to local media. The bomb, weighing around 227kg (500 lbs) was unearthed at a construction site close to the University of Hong Kong staff dormitories on Monday (January 23) morning. The bomb disposal unit said the airdrop bomb contained about 120kg of explosives. “The model (of […]
(Reuters) — A suspected World War II bomb exploded in the Thai capital on Wednesday (April 2) as scrap metal workers tried to cut it open with a blow torch, killing at least seven people and injuring 19, police said. Construction workers found the shell at a construction site and brought it to a warehouse on the outskirts of Bangkok to be cut up. “The construction workers were urging the warehouse to cut the bomb into pieces […]
