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Bomb squad blow up WW II bomb (UK)

BOMB disposal experts have blown up the World War Two bomb which caused huge chaos in Coventry city centre yesterday.

Builders working at the Belgrade Plaza building site discovered the unexploded bomb at noon yesterday (Wednesday).

Bomb disposal experts were initially called in to deal with the bomb. But, due to the bomb's complexity and the extreme danger facing them, they called in further help from Cambridgeshire.
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