100kg WWII Soviet bomb found near Budapest

An unexploded Soviet bomb weighing 100 kilos has been found during construction work in a local street in Nagytarcsa, east of Budapest, the Hungarian Armed Forces said on Monday.

Soviet bomb found

The device was disassembled by an explosives expert at the scene and taken to a central army depo, the army said on Facebook.

Earlier this month, a similar WWII bomb was found in the Danube river in Esztergom, in northern Hungary. The device was disassembled at the scene and taken to the central depo.

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