WWII bomb clears US Embassy in Budapest
Workers and police outside the Hungarian National Bank building. The structure is adjacent to the US Embassy, where construction crews found a WWII bomb on Monday.
The US Embassy compound, a bank and three public buildings had to be evacuated after a WWII bomb weighing 50 kilos was discovered at a construction site in central Budapest on Monday, the national disaster management authority told MTI.
The authority said some 1,800 people had to leave their offices and homes after the device was found next to a gas pipe during pipe replacement work in Szabadsag Square near Parliament.
Bradley Hurst, the US Embassy's Press Attache said earlier that the embassy was closed for the day, but was expected to open for business on Tuesday.
A press official of the Defence Ministry told MTI on Monday afternoon that police had evacuated the area in a 600-metre radius to allow inspection by explosives experts. The experts detached the detonator of the Soviet-made destroyer bomb and transported it to a depot.
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