550-Pound Allied Bomb From WWII Is Defused
From Times Wire Reports
About 20,000 residents of Nantes, one of the largest cities on France’s Atlantic Coast, were evacuated from their homes for several hours while experts defused an unexploded Allied bomb from World War II.
The 550-pound bomb, found during construction at a medical school, was defused and taken to a military base, where it was to be fully neutralized.
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