Thousands evacuated in Hong Kong after 1,000-pound WWII bomb discovered
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Thousands of people had to evacuate a moving neighborhood of Hong Kong overnight, experts II.
The US bomb was found on a construction site on Friday on a night on the West Side of Hong Kong, and it is not the first bomb on the island.
“We confirmed that this object is a bomb based on World War II,” a police official Andy Chan Tin-Chu told journalists. He said. Authorized, “due to extraordinary high risks associated with absorption”, approximately 1,900 household people containing 6,000 people “was asked to evacuate quickly,” he said.
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Bomb shell after a disposal in Hong Kong on Saturday. (Chen Ziyan/China News Service/via VCG through Getty Images)
Hong Kong police said in a statement that the 1,000 -pound bomb was probably 500 pounds TNT by US service members during the war, and bomb experts had to work from 2 o’clock to noon.
Police, disposed of the regulation team “Brav said[ed] Elements under Typhoon “to remove the bomb”, to neutralize the threat according to 11:48
Nobody was injured.
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In this photo, which was shot in the early hours of Saturday and released by Hong Kong police, the police officers were discovered at a construction site in Hong Kong. He is preparing to neutralize a large bomb from World War II. (Hong Kong Police through AP)
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In 2018, experts transferred a Second World War bomb on a construction site in the Hong Kong business zone. It was also 1,000 pounds and it was the third bomb excavated since January of that year.
Thousands of people had to evacuate a moving neighborhood of Hong Kong overnight, experts II. (Hong Kong Police through AP)
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Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese forces during the war and was targeted by the United States during the raids there.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
