A busy area of central London has been shut down for a second consecutive day, after police found another part of an unexploded World War II bomb.
Soho's Dean Street was blocked off and workers were told to leave their offices again following the discovery on Tuesday.Unexploded World War II bomb found in central London prompts evacuationsConstruction workers first came across the bomb near the Soho Hotel on Monday, prompting a sizable portion of the neighborhood to be shut down by police and hundreds of people to be evacuated."Another part of yesterday's WW2 ordnance has been discovered," police tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
— Rob Picheta February 4, 2020 Soho is a lively part of the UK's capital, housing a number of businesses, restaurants and bars.During the war, German air raids dropped more than 12,000 metric tons of bombs on the British capital and killed nearly 30,000 Londoners, according to the Imperial War Museum. Most of that damage was done during the Blitz between 1940 and 1941.
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