PHOTOS: One-tonne WW2 bomb removed from Budapest

A US-made one-tonne Second World War bomb has been removed from a construction site in southern Budapest, the police have lifted the closure it put in place in the area for the disassembling of the device, a communications officer of the Hungarian army’s explosives’ unit told MTI on Saturday.

The bomb was found during groundwork around a railway bridge in southern Budapest earlier in the week, Milán Gajdos said. One of the fuses has been successfully removed from the bomb while the other was arranged to allow safe transport of the device to the army’s central storage facility where it will be destroyed, he said.

• One-tonne US-made WW2 bomb found in Budapest