Still amazing that 70+ years after WWII ended they are still finding undetonated explosives in Europe – PB/TK
Greek city evacuated to defuse WWII bomb – AP February 12, 2017, 8:47 AM
THESSALONIKI, Greece – Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki evacuated an estimated 75,000 people Sunday so army experts could defuse a 500-pound unexploded World War II bomb found under a gas station.
The evacuation started at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT). Police went house-to-house ringing bells and knocking on doors to remind people living within a 1.2-mile radius, mostly in the western suburb of Kordelio, to leave their homes.
Bomb disposal experts started work at 11.30 a.m. (0900 GMT), 90 minutes later than planned, but defused the bomb in only 30 minutes, Central Macedonia governor Apostolos Tzizikostas announced.
The bomb was now going to be taken to an army firing range.
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