Sandwell residents evacuated after wartime bomb discovered
Residents living in a quiet Sandwell street were evacuated from their homes after a potentially explosive discovery.
The residents living on Willow Avenue in Bearwood were asked to leave their homes after an unexploded Second World War bomb was discovered in a garden on the street.
Bomb disposal experts from the army were called to the property around 1.30pm on Monday, along with officers from West Midlands Police, who sealed off the street.
The bomb was subsequently removed by the army bomb disposal unit and a controlled explosion carried out in nearby Warley Woods.
A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: "We were called after what's believed to an unexploded WW2 device was discovered in a garden in Willow Avenue, Bearwood, just before 1.30pm.
"It was removed by the army bomb disposal unit and a controlled explosion was carried out.
"A cordon has since been lifted."
