City partly evacuated after wartime bomb discovered

Local authorities have evacuated some 20,000 people in the Normandy city of Caen so technicians can defuse a 1,100-pound bomb dropped by American forces during World War II.

City partly evacuated after wartime bomb discovered

Local authorities have evacuated some 20,000 people in the Normandy city of Caen so technicians can defuse a 1,100-pound bomb dropped by American forces during World War II.

The unexploded bomb was found at the end of January by workers building a language centre at Caen University.

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