WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 12, 2009
WWII Bomb Evacuates 3,000 From Polish City
Construction of Opera House Leads to Discovery of 1,100-Pound Ordinance
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Wroclaw police spokesman Pawel Petrykowski says workers found the 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) bomb Thursday during construction of a new music hall that will go up near the Wroclaw Opera House.
Petrykowski said the area was evacuated, residents were asked to avoid the area and a special crane was brought in to remove the bomb.
Wroclaw was a German city, Breslau, until Poland's borders were redrawn at the end of the war. Unexploded WWII ordnance is still found frequently in Poland and Germany more than 60 years after the war ended.
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