American WWII-Era Bomb Found Buried In Hong Kong Results In Thousands Of Residents To Evacuate

World War II has been finished for over 80 years, but due to the massive amount of bombs that were dropped, bombs are still being found to this day.

On Friday evening, residents in Hong Kong received a scare after an American bomb was found buried in a neighborhood.

Bomb defusing experts spent several hours defusing the undetonated bomb, which was estimated to weigh over 1,000 pounds.

Fox News reported more on the potential threat and evaluation efforts:

Thousands of people were forced to evacuate a bustling neighborhood of Hong Kong overnight while experts sweated through the delicate work of defusing an undetonated nearly 5-foot, 1,000-pound bomb left over from World War II.

The U.S.-made bomb was found at a construction site in Quarry Bay on Hong Kong’s west side overnight Friday, and it isn’t the first bomb from the war to be found on the island.

“We have confirmed this object to be a bomb dating back to World War II,” Andy Chan Tin-Chu, a police official, told reporters. He said that because of “the exceptionally high risks associated with its disposal,” approximately 1,900 households involving 6,000 individuals were “urged to evacuate swiftly.”

Hong Kong police said in a statement that the 1,000-pound bomb had 500 pounds of TNT that was likely dropped by U.S. service members during the war, and bomb experts had to work from around 2 a.m. Saturday until nearly noon.

Police said the disposal ordinance team “brav[ed] the elements under the typhoon” to dismantle the bomb,” neutralizing the threat by 11:48 a.m.

No one was injured.

Take a look:

Hong Kong EOD making us proud by dismantling an old WW2 U.S.A. bomb uncovered in Quarry Bay. pic.twitter.com/HfCcfGO9F1

— The Stewart Mackenzie Indaba (@sj_mackenzie) September 20, 2025

GUARDIANS IN THE STORM
Starting 2AM (SEP 20)—our #BombDisposal experts have been braving the elements under the typhoon to handle a piece of #UnexplodedOrdnance (#UXO) from #WW2 upon a large-scale emergency evacuation in📍Quarry Bay aided by #drones➕our #PoliceNegotiationCadre —… https://t.co/z4Q9N9jLiV pic.twitter.com/DOL8GZLxBh

— Hong Kong Police Force (@hkpoliceforce) September 20, 2025

Last year, BBC reported a German bomb from WWII was discovered in Plymouth, England:

A 500kg (1,102lb) German World War Two bomb that forced the evacuation of thousands of people in Plymouth has been detonated at sea.

The unexploded device was found in a garden on St Michael Avenue on Tuesday, sparking four days of disruption.

On Friday police closed roads and rail and bus services were stopped as the bomb was transported 1.4 miles (2.3km) through the city’s streets.

The device was taken by boat beyond the breakwater and detonated at 21:51 GMT.

An unexploded German World War II-era bomb was discovered in the backyard of a home in Plymouth, United Kingdom. The bomb's discovery on Feb. 20 prompted the evacuation of more than 20,000 people. pic.twitter.com/0fgHbNt4PH

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) February 26, 2024