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'World War II bomb' found in city | |
(about 2 hours later) | |
Parts of Coventry have been closed off after what is believed to be an unexploded World War II bomb was unearthed on a building site. | |
It was found at the Belgrade Plaza development in Upper Well Street. Officers from the Explosives Ordinance Division are at the scene. | |
Eight junctions of the ring road are shut and hundreds of workers have been told to leave their offices. | |
Police said the device seems genuine but it is not clear if it is live. | |
Traffic diversions are in place and the general advice to pedestrians and motorists is to avoid Coventry city centre this afternoon West Midlands Police | |
The Coventry Evening Telegraph offices and Belgrade Theatre have also been evacuated. | |
A matinee performance of In The Club has been cancelled and police are maintaining a 500m cordon from the building site. | |
The ring road is closed to traffic anti-clockwise between junctions one and eight, which take traffic into the city centre. | |
Exits out of the city centre from the ring road remain open. | |
"Traffic diversions are in place and the general advice to pedestrians and motorists is to avoid Coventry city centre this afternoon," a police spokesman said. | |
Further explosives experts are due to arrive at the scene to examine the bomb and decide on how best to deal with it, the spokesman added. |