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Tokyo evacuates 16,000 to defuse wartime bomb

At least 16,000 residents were evacuated on Sunday while a bomb squad defused an unexploded bomb from the Second World War, Kyodo News reported.

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  • Published: 12:57 May 18, 2008
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Tokyo: At least 16,000 residents were evacuated on Sunday while a bomb squad defused an unexploded bomb from the Second World War, Kyodo News reported.

It took two hours for the Ground Self-Defence Force members to remove the fuse of the bomb.

The Chofu city government later declared the area safe.

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