Specialists have successful carried out a controlled explosion of a World War Two bomb discovered on a construction site.
The buried device was uncovered near Station Road in East Tilbury, Essex at 11:30 GMT on Tuesday before the detonation took place on Friday. Ch Supt Scott Egerton said: “It was decided detonation of the device at the scene was preferable to making an attempt to move it.”
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Source: BBC News
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