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WW2 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. 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 WW2 bomb was found in the River Danube in Esztergom, in northern Hungary. The device was disassembled at the scene and taken to the central depo.