‘Moving an unexploded bomb is the most dangerous part’
A former bomb disposal expert says moving the unexploded bomb is “the most dangerous part”.
Andy Abbott tells Sky News that the danger comes from it having stayed where it landed for decades.
“It might have had a shovel whacked on the top of it, but actually moving it is the most dangerous part,” he says.
Disposal experts will try and mitigate the risk while moving it by putting sand or water bags around it, Mr Abbott said.
He says the bomb is one of the largest dropped on the UK during the Second World War that still gets found today.
Normally, the safest way to dispose of it would be to detonate it “in situ”, he adds, but notes in this situation that would have caused “a hell of a lot of damage”.
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