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Sunday, August 12, 2018
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Sunday, August 12, 2018
1,800 evacuated as France defuses British WWII bomb
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRENNES, France — Some 1,800 people are ordered to evacuate their homes in northwest France as a bomb squad defuses a British bomb from World War II, officials say.
The 220-kilogram (485-pound) bomb was found in late June during construction work near the center of Rouen in Normandy.
Residents living within a 270-meter (nearly 900-foot) radius of the site are told to leave the area early Sunday ahead of the operation, which wound up shortly after 11:00 a.m.
Discoveries of bombs and shells from World War II are common in France and elsewhere on the continent.
— AFP
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