WWII Bomb Defused: Thousands evacuated from busy Hong Kong commercial district

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Crews defused a World War Two-era bomb in Hong Kong on Thursday - hours after forcing the lock-down of a busy commercial district.

Four-thousand people were evacuated and ferry service across Victoria Harbour was suspended. The bomb was discovered Wednesday morning at a harbor-front construction site. Explosives experts worked on the device through the night. It's the second time in a week that an American bomb dropped during the second World War had been found at a Hong Kong construction site.