The largest unexploded World War Two bomb ever found in Poland has detonated during the defusing process, a Polish Navy spokesman said
The RAF dropped the Tallboy in a raid in 1945 which sank the German cruiser Lützow. The bomb was 6m in length and weighed over 5 tonnes.
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#Tallboy, the largest unexploded #WWII bomb detonated💣 – Lt Cmdr G.Lewandowski, 8th Coastal Defence Flotilla: The deflagration process turned into detonation. The object can be considered neutralised, it will not pose any more threat to the Szczecin-Swinoujscie shipping channel. pic.twitter.com/xHkRzAaONn