Berlin: Explosives experts in Germany detonated the remains of a 550-pound (250 kilogrammes) World War II bomb in central Munich on Tuesday evening.
The DAPD news agency cited a police spokesman as saying the bomb was successfully destroyed on Tuesday evening.
Still, burning debris caused fires in several nearby buildings that had been evacuated after the bomb was discovered on Monday in the Schwabing district.
Efforts to defuse the bomb failed and experts decided to pack it with explosives and detonate it rather than risk an uncontrolled explosion.
Tens of thousands of unexploded bombs are believed still to be lying in the ground across Germany.
The DAPD news agency cited a police spokesman as saying the bomb was successfully destroyed on Tuesday evening.
Still, burning debris caused fires in several nearby buildings that had been evacuated after the bomb was discovered on Monday in the Schwabing district.
Efforts to defuse the bomb failed and experts decided to pack it with explosives and detonate it rather than risk an uncontrolled explosion.
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Tens of thousands of unexploded bombs are believed still to be lying in the ground across Germany.
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