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Italy safely detonates World War II bomb discovered in Po river

By Misty Severi
Published August 8, 2022 7:30pm ET
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Italy safely detonates World War II bomb discovered in Po river
A WWII bomb was destroyed on Sunday after being found last month due to low water levels cause by an extreme drought in Italy. (Photo by Nicola Ciancaglini/Ciancaphoto Studio/Getty Images)


Military experts carried out a controlled explosion in Italy on Sunday to destroy a bomb from World War II that was discovered at the bottom of Italy’s Po river last month.

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