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Experts DEFUSE
World War II

BOMB

in East London

MILITARY bomb disposal experts that it was Military Rocket
safely removed an unexploded World potentially more dangerous today than bomb disposal experts from the Royal attacks on the capital followed later in
War II bomb from a basement in East when it was made. Logistics Corps detonated similar the war.
London on Tuesday, after its discovery At least 150 people were evacuated devices discovered in London’s According to the Imperial War Museum,
forced scores of people from their from their homes overnight Monday Wembley and Bermondsey areas it’s estimated more than 12,000 metric
homes overnight. to Tuesday, a 200-meter exclusion earlier this year. London Fire Brigade tons of bombs were dropped on London
The 250-kilogram (550-pound) device zone was set up and several roads were said it had been called out for nine and nearly 30,000 civilians were killed
had lain undisturbed for more than closed. unexploded WWII bombs since 2009. by enemy action.
70 years but was uncovered Monday A local school was called into action as German planes dropped thousands A searchable map produced by the
afternoon by contractors working at a an emergency shelter for those unable of bombs on London during the Blitz, Bomb Sight Project shows the scale of
construction site on Temple Street in to go home, Tower Hamlets Council from September 1940 to May 1941. the Blitz bombing.
bustling Bethnal Green. said.
Almost exactly 24 hours later, it had
been made safe and removed, London
Fire Brigade said, adding that residents
who were evacuated from their homes
would soon be allowed to return.
The device is believed to have been
dropped over London during German
bombing raids in the early 1940s but
didn’t detonate, the UK Ministry of
Defence said.
A military bomb disposal team
worked through the night to defuse
the device. Images provided by the
ministry showed the rusty device firmly
embedded in the dirt, in the cellar of a
three-storey building.
A military spokesman said before its
removal that the bomb, if detonated,
“could cause mass destruction” and

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