English city evacuated as WWII bomb found

[Chacor]

'World War II bomb' found in city

Parts of Coventry city centre have been closed off after what is believed to be an unexploded World War II bomb was unearthed on a building site.

It was found at the Belgrade Plaza development in Upper Well Street. Officers from the Explosives Ordinance Division are at the scene.

Eight junctions of the ring road are shut and hundreds of workers have been told to leave their offices.

Police said the device seems genuine but it is not clear if it is live.

The Coventry Evening Telegraph offices and Belgrade Theatre have also been evacuated.

A matinée performance of In The Club has been cancelled and police are maintaining a 500m cordon from the building site.

The ring road is closed to traffic anti-clockwise between junctions one and eight, which take traffic into the city centre.

Exits out of the city centre from the ring road remain open.

"Traffic diversions are in place and the general advice to pedestrians and motorists is to avoid Coventry city centre this afternoon," a police spokesman said.

Further explosives experts are due to arrive at the scene to examine the bomb and decide on how best to deal with it, the spokesman added.

[HURAKAN]

Wow, that's very interesting. Lets hope nothing happens.