ROME: Local officials evacuated 54,000 people from the southern Italian city of Brindisi Sunday as experts worked on a World War II bomb, the largest operation of its kind in the country, media reported. The British bomb, one-metre (three-feet) long and weighing 200 kilogrammes (440-pounds), was found on November 2 during refurbishment work for a cinema. The bomb had been damaged by equipment at the building site, making the operation more tricky. But army specialists managed to defuse the device and they will detonate at another site on Monday. Residents within a 1.5-kilometre radius were evacuated, and gas supplies in homes within 500 metres of the site were cut. Some air traffic and rail services were also suspended. More than a thousand members of the security forces and around 250 volunteers took part in the evacuation operation.
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