Around 36,000 people will be evacuated from their homes in the central Italian town of Viterbo on Tuesday while army experts defuse a massive unexploded bomb left over from world war two.
The long-lost bomb is one of the biggest ever found in Italy and was unearthed during construction works in the town, located about 100 km north of Rome. The device weighs 2,000 kg – of which 1,300 kg is explosives – and reportedly belongs to the category of aircraft bombs dropped by the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV bomber, in 1944.
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Source: Wanted in Rome
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