HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong police on Friday successfully
dismantled the largest World War II bomb yet found in the city
after its discovery on a construction site prompted the evacuation
of 2,260 people.
The nearly one-tonne US Navy ANM66 bomb was discovered by building
workers late on Thursday in the Happy Valley district, near the
city's famous downtown racing track.
"It was the biggest bomb ever found in Hong Kong," a police
spokesman told AFP.
Bomb disposal experts took 15 hours to remove the live explosives
from the bomb, which was unearthed close to a Sikh temple, hotels
and residential housing.
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