Thousands of evacuated residents have been left assessing the damage to their homes following the detonation of a World War II bomb in a blast that left a crater the size of a double-decker bus and was heard 10 miles away.
More than 2,600 people had to be flee before the controlled explosion of a recently unearthed Nazi Hermann bomb in Exeter, Devon on Saturday evening.
A 400-yard cordon was put in place with 1,400 university students among those evacuated.
When the bomb was detonated a huge cloud of dust was shot into the sky above - leaving several nearby homes with structural damage.
EXETER: Thousands of residents in Exeter have been evacuated from their homes as authorities attend to a possible unexploded Second World War device, police said.Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed.
A police van guarding the cordon near the Exeter University building. Credit: ITV West Country
The cordon around an unexploded bomb in Exeter has been extended and around 2,600 properties have been evacuated.
A major incident was declared yesterday (Friday 26 February) after the discovery of the suspected World War Two bomb. Around 100 properties were evacuated and the military were brought in to make the device safe and remove it.
The cordon was extended from 100 to 400 metres this morning. A notice has been handed out to residents asking them to leave their homes by 9am this morning (Saturday 27 February).
Trains out of Exeter are being replaced by buses as the larger cordon now falls across the railway line between Exeter St Davids and Taunton.
The unexploded device, described as around eight feet long and 27 inches across, was found on a building site on private land to the west of the University of Exeter campus.