This is how a WWII bomb exploded in Britain | the Chronicle

A World War II bomb exploded this Saturday in Exeter, England, affecting a 350-meter radius and around 2,600 properties near Glenthorne Road, according to local authorities.

The staff of the The Royal Logistics Corps of the Army was tasked with finding the bomb and dislodging the citizens, so the Royal Navy experts then detonated it in a controlled manner.

Previously, residents had been warned that the device would intentionally explode “sometimes in the night” and that they should expect a “Big Bang”. In this sense, the population claimed to have heard the explosion until nearly 10 kilometers after its detonation around 6.15 p.m.

Drew Parkinson, The South Devon and South East Cornwall Coast Guard Area Commander “A very long time for HM Coastguard to help the police in Exeter, now there has been a controlled explosion”.

As they described it, the bomb was approximately eight feet long and 70 centimeters wide. It was found at a construction site on private land west of the University of Exeter campus.

The Royal Navy’s demining team worked overnight to establish a walled-up mitigation structure before the detonation of the device passed into the hands of experts from the Army’s Royal Logistics Corps.

A Royal Navy spokesperson said they surrendered 300 tons of sand to build a kind of bunker capable of containing the shock wave of the explosion.

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Resident comments on Twitter

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On social media, some users commented on what happened on their Twitter accounts: “It rocked me over six miles!” I thought another large tree branch had fallen on my house. “one of the netizens pointed out.

Another said: “Something I thought I would never see or hear. A # WW2 # bomb detonating on the road to Glenthorpe, #exeter. I was at #belvederefields, about 350 yards away, could still see the column of the explosion. Unbelievable“.