Video provided by French police shows the controlled detonation of a large bomb dating from the Second World War in Colombes. After attempts to remove the bomb’s detonator failed at midday, authorities buried it and later destroyed it in a controlled detonation.
WWII bomb destroyed in controlled explosion in Paris
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Sun 11:45 - Le Figaro
Hauts-de-Seine: the extraction of the Second World War bomb fails, it will be destroyed by explosion
Sun 14:56 - La Libre (BE)
800 agents mobilized and a strong explosion: what happened in the north of Paris? "We'll have to blow it up on site."
Mon 08:38 - Euronews
WWII bomb destroyed in controlled explosion in Paris