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Unexploded Ordinance / 12 February 2018
Homes evacuated after WWII-era bomb discovered in the Thames
Royal Navy bomb disposal divers on a boat in King V George Dock close to London City Airport which has been closed after the discovery of an unexploded Second World War bomb
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OFFICIALS from Newham Council were going door-to-door today to try to persuade residents to evacuate their homes after an unexploded World War II bomb was found in east London.

Navy and police experts tried to float the five-foot-long device from its resting place in King George V Dock after it was found yesterday morning.

It was identified as a German 500kg fused device and police set up a 234-yard exclusion zone around it, but some residents initially refused to leave their homes.

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