Evacuation from WWII bomb site.

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Hungarian authorities evacuated 16,000 people from a residential area in the centre of the capital Budapest yesterday as disposal experts moved in to examine an unexploded World War II bomb.

All apartment blocks within a one kilometre radius of the building site where the bomb was discovered on Monday evening were being cleared of people, police said.Experts would then decide whether to carry out a controlled explosion or remove the bomb to a secure site to be destroyed, Gabor Hajdu from the disposal unit explained.The closure of the area was expected to last until evening.Five thousand Budapest residents had to be evacuated two weeks ago after another unexploded bomb was discovered. That and a further two bombs found in May all had to be transported to secure sites to be destroyed.

During World War II, US bombers dropped almost 8,000 tonnes of bombs on Budapest. According to

historians, one in 12 failed to explode.

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