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During the deactivation, the largest unexploded WWII bomb ever found in the country exploded in Poland, wrote on 24B in the wake of the BBC. A Polish naval spokesman said that all the bomb experts and divers were out of the danger zone when the bomb went off in a shipping channel in the Baltic Sea at a depth of 12 meters.

No word has yet been received about the injured. The force of the detonation is said to be close Swinoujscie (still known as Swienemünde in Germany during WWII) It could also be felt in some parts of the city, and huge waves were hitting the sea.

Anyway A 20-foot-long, 5.4-ton bomb called the Tallboy was dropped in an air raid by the British Royal Air Force in 1945, when the German warship Lützow was successfully sunk.. In addition to the city’s port, 750 residents had previously been evacuated for security reasons.

(Cover image: World War II bomb exploded in Poland on October 13, 2020. Photo: Polish Eighth Coastal Defense Flotilla / Poznan University of Technology / Brochure / Reuters)



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