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Unexploded WWII Bomb Prompts Massive UK Evacuation

A police officer speaks to a member of the public after homes were evacuated when a suspected Second World War explosive device was discovered in a garden on St Michael Avenue in Plymouth, England, Th

An unexploded World War II bomb, weighing around 500 kilograms, was discovered in a residential yard in Plymouth earlier this week. The bomb is set to be transported by a military convoy and disposed of at sea beyond the breakwater, marking one of the largest evacuations in the United Kingdom since the war.

More than 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, with additional residents along the convoy route advised to leave as well. The evacuation, coordinated by the Ministry of Defence, is considered one of the most significant since World War II.

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