Get out of Plymouth NOW- LIVE NAZI BOMB Found-UK City Evacuated

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Get out of Plymouth NOW- UK City Evacuated After LIVE NAZI BOMB Found in Garden

World watches as army begins nerve-shredding process of carrying live Nazi bomb through streets of Devon city and dropping it into sea after 'largest post-war evacuation'

Army experts began a mission to shift a LIVE NAZI BOMB through the streets of Plymouth today after one of the largest ever UK peacetime evacuations

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Half a mile away, it's time for a pint! Locals used the incident as an excuse for a beer.

















A Royal Engineers MAN SV Recovery Vehicle that has been deployed to Plymouth















































Hundreds of offices, shops, schools and houses have been cleared to allow an Army convoy to move the 500kg Second World War ordinance through the naval city.

Experts decided the bomb - found by a father digging the foundations for his daughter's new extension - would cause too much damage if they detonate it where it lies, potentially destroying multiple homes and risking lives.


Instead, the explosive will be driven slowly through Plymouth's narrow streets on the back of a lorry - with 1,200 properties cleared, 3,250 people evacuated and a 300-metre cordon put in place to reduce the risk of disaster.

But just half a mile away from the exclusion zone, locals gathered in a pub to enjoy an afternoon pint - while one man even moved nearer the area to enjoy a cider 'in solidarity'.

Despite the blanket evacuation order text being sent to at least 3,250 people today, Devon and Cornwall Police have admitted they can't 'force' people to leave their homes.

One local claiming to be inside the cordon has said he is staying in the bath while the bomb is removed. But a steady flow of people wheeling suitcases, shopping bags and pets have been seen leaving the area on foot today.

The bomb will be placed on a boat via the Torpoint Ferry slipway in the city's world famous Sound and dropped into the Channel and detonated once safely past Plymouth's breakwater.

Emergency service teams have already blocked off the route through the city ahead of the nail-biting operations to shift the deadly explosive.

The gigantic bomb, dropped by Hitler's Luftwaffe to target Plymouth nearby naval base and factories in the Blitz, was found by the father of a woman who was digging the foundations for his daughter's new single-storey extension.

He says she only moved in two weeks ago and aerial pictures of the bomb show it lying on its side less than ten feet from her patio doors.

Well over 1,000 servicemen, police, coastguard and volunteers are involved in the operation. Locals have been told that Plymouth's leisure centre can be used as an emergency bomb evacuation refuge.

Others say they will stay in the area to watch the operation if they can – or spend the afternoon in pubs just outside the cordon.

A Russian tourist in Plymouth took to Instagram to show how one pub in the city is packed with locals. She then went for a stroll to Plymouth's Hoe, which was completely deserted – seemingly oblivious to the bomb scare around two miles away.

In an historic first, Britain's new Emergency Alert system was used to issue a 'severe' warning to locals via text. It was the first confirmed use of the system outside of a test run that took place in April last year, Chief Superintendent Ian Drummond-Smith said.

A Plymouth City Council spokesman told residents: 'The military advice is very clear and for your own safety, you need to leave your home and the area of the cordon by 2pm and we anticipate that you will be able to return by 5pm.'

A Royal Engineers MAN SV Recovery Vehicle was deployed to Plymouth today

Police barricaded Albert Road close to the Torpoint Ferry crossing where the bomb is heading

Supt Phil Williams of Devon & Cornwall Police said: 'Over the last few days, our military colleagues have been assessing a device that was found in the garden of a property in Keyham.

'They've reached a decision now after carrying out those assessments that they plan to move that device, rather than detonate in situ. That's the least impactful option.

'A new 300-metre cordon will be put in place and the bomb is going to be taken from the address down to a slipway near the Torpoint ferry where it will be taken out to sea and then safely disposed of.'

Supt Williams said the convoy was expected to take 20 minutes to travel from the property to the sea during the three hour operation between 2pm and 5pm.

Alarmed homeowners had been told their homes could be blown up as disposal experts considered whether to detonate the device.

It comes as a bomb disposal expert today say the shifting of the unexploded ordnance would be 'the most dangerous part'.


Andy Abbott, a former bomb disposal officer, said shifting the ageing device - which has been buried for decades - could cause it to detonate in a devastating explosion.


Speaking to Sky News, he said: 'It might have had a shovel whacked on the top of it, but actually moving it is the most dangerous part.'


Disposal experts will try and mitigate the risk while moving it by putting sand or water bags around it, Mr Abbott said.

Residents in three adjoining homes were given just one hour to empty their properties of all their treasured possessions as the four day Plymouth bomb emergency heads towards a climax.




A squad of 25 Royal Navy recruits plus soldiers and other residents joined forces to urgently fill three large removal vans provided by the council last night.


The man who found the bomb as he was digging in his daughter's back garden fears the property will be sacrificed as local worry insurance firms may not pay up to cover any damage.

On Thursday he told PlymouthLive: 'Last night my daughter and her two neighbours were brought together for a meeting where they were effectively told to prepare that all three houses were going to be destroyed.

Before leaving, the father took one last look at the bomb noting that 'not a single sandbag has been put on it yet'.

The homeowner's father, who had discovered the bomb with a builder while digging for foundations in preparation for a house extension, fears the property will be sacrificed - leaving his daughter house hunting all over again.

He said: 'She only lived in the house for a few weeks.

'I've been helping out, doing DIY, sorted out a bedroom for her.





WW2 German bomb found in a back garden in Plymouth, Devon

When did the bomb drop and how long has it been hidden in for?

It's believed the huge 500kg bomb was dropped on the city by the Nazis during the Plymouth Blitz in 1941.

The horrific attack on the naval city took place on April 22, 1941 and claimed the lives of 76 people.
It was the biggest loss of civilian life in the city during the Blitz. The relentless strike hit Portland Square, levelling a large portion of the area.

The Blitz took place between September 1940 and May 1941 and saw cities across the UK being struck by Luftwaffe bombers.

About 43,000 civilians were killed in the raids, including 1,178 in the Plymouth Blitz which began in March 1941.