HK police defuse WWII bomb

HONG KONG, Jan 28 (XINHUA): Police of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Sunday afternoon successfully defused a World War II bomb found in Wanchai district, downtown Hong Kong after a long-hour operation.

No casualties or property losses were reported.

The 1,000-pound bomb was discovered by workers at the Sha Tin to Central rail link construction site on Saturday. Hong Kong police began the bomb disposal work on Saturday afternoon after evacuating about 1,500 people, and finished the operation on Sunday afternoon.

Tony Chow, senior bomb disposal officer with the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Bureau, it took a while for them to find a suitable point to cut open the device to burn out the explosives.