Unexploded World War II Bomb Found in South London's Bermondsey District
An unexploded bomb from World War II was discovered in London on Monday morning, fire officials and police said.The five-foot long, half-ton bomb was discovered at a construction site in South London's Bermondsey district, London's Metropolitan police said in a statement.Officers and firefighters responded to a call about the bomb at 9:18 a.m. local time (5:18 a.m. ET) and closed off a quarter-mile surrounding the area "as a precaution," the police statement said.The London Fire Brigade (LFB) tweeted that roads were closed, and encouraged displaced residents to contact authorities for shelter information. It did not specify how many people had been evacuated from the area.Two schools in the vicinity of the bomb have been evacuated, according to a statement from the Southwark borough, of which Bermondsey is a part.An LFB spokesman told NBC News that discoveries of unexploded bombs in the city don't "happen every day but they are not massively uncommon where there's building works going on."The LFB said in a tweet that they had responded to seven unexploded bombs and five hand grenades in the past five years."Obviously London was heavily bombed during the Second World War," the LFB spokesman told NBC News.SOCIAL— Elisha Fieldstadt and Alexander Smith
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