Army bomb disposal experts have undertaken the controlled explosion of a 1,000kg ‘Hermann bomb’ dating from the Second World War on an Exeter construction site.
The blast left a crater the size of a double-decker bus on the site on Glenthorne Road, where contractor Urbn Construction has been building student accommodation.
A 400m cordon was set up around the bomb following its discovery last week, prompting the evacuation of around 2,600 local residents, and the army built a metal ‘mitigation structure’ around the bomb, as well as using 400 tonnes of sand to help to minimise damage.
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