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Associated Press

All flights in and out of London City Airport were cancelled on Monday after a 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) unexploded second world war bomb was found nearby in the River Thames.
The Metropolitan Police service cleared an area within 214 metres (700 feet) of the bomb, including several residential streets, as officers worked with specialists from the Royal Navy to remove the device.
Police said the German bomb was discovered on Sunday at the George V Dock during pre-planned work at City Airport. They described it as a 1.5-metre (5-foot) shell that was lying in a bed of dense silt.
The first stage of the removal operation is to free the shell from the silt so that it can be floated for removal, police said in a statement. After that, navy bomb-disposal experts will tow it away and destroy it underwater in a controlled explosion.

Local officials offered emergency accommodation to residents, although some refused to leave their homes.
Airport CEO Robert Sinclair said he recognised that passengers will be inconvenienced but said the airport was cooperating fully with authorities to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.
Sinclair said later that he expected the airport to reopen on Tuesday.
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London City, the smallest of London’s international airports, handled 4.5 million passengers last year.
Popular with business travellers, it’s located in East London’s docklands, an area that was heavily bombed by the German air force during the war.


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London City Airport shuts down due to unexploded second world war bomb

epa06518752 A view of London City Airport in London, Britain, 12 February 2018. An unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered in the Thames nearby causing the airport to be closed. EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL

Bomb disposal experts ride a boat near London City Airport on February 12, 2018. Photo: EPA-EFE

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