Weighing 225 kilograms and at least 75-years-old, the contained about 129 kilograms of TNT.
“It still carried a high risk of explosion,” Dello Monacco, the commander of the army regiment that carried out the work, told Italian media. The explosive was eventualy transferred to a ship and taken to a remote area in the sea where it was detonated.
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⚠️ #BombaDay #Diretta ⚠️
Comune di Venezia (@comunevenezia) February 2, 2020
✅Le fasi dedicate del caricamento dell’ordigno su uno zatterino che verrà trainato da un natante@ItalianNavy #GuardiaCostiera #SIcurezzaDellaNavigazione @CMVenezia @LuigiBrugnaro @muoversivenezia pic.twitter.com/iJSfFRp6Z8
Between 8.30am and 12.30pm, all boat, train, bus and plane traffic was halted.
Thanks Ryanair for letting us know of a bomb/airport change 24 hours before our flight :))) Marco Polo Venice pic.twitter.com/paDNzPmGBW
RVV (@R0bin_VV) February 1, 2020
Many passengers looking to fly to or from Venice's Marco Polo airport were warned in advance that flights would be postponed.
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On 14 January, 14,000 people were evacuated from the German city of Dortmund after four bombs were found in a densely populated part of the city.
#Germany has since yesterday the biggest evacuation in history after ww2. Between 13.000-15.000 people have to leave since yesterday morning there houses in the City of #Dortmund (600.000) were also the @BVB has his stadium. pic.twitter.com/CBkuaZgd9n
Xy5Z89🇩🇪 (@Xy5Z89) January 12, 2020
It was considered the biggest evacuation in Germany since world war two.
In Italy, in the southern town of Brindisi, more than 50,000 people were evacuated from their homes on 15 December after an unexploded British bomb was removed.
Just two weeks earlier, more than 10,000 residents were evacuated in Turin as a British bomb from the same era was being defused.
And in February 2019, some 1,800 people near Paris’s Gare du Nord station were evacuated after a bomb was defused.
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