Italy drags WWII bomb to sea to be detonated

Italian bomb experts have moved a 500lb (225-kilo) British Second World War bomb to the sea so it can be safely detonated after it was accidentally dug up during excavation work in an Adriatic town.

Some 23,000 people in Fano were evacuated as a precaution while the bomb was transported to the sea.

Italian army bomb experts said yesterday that the bomb would be detonated after 144 hours, the maximum time required to wait in case a time delay has been triggered and the device explodes on its own.