Rare World War II bomb discovery near Visva Bharati raises major safety scare - OrissaPOST

Army defuses World War II-era bomb found near river in Bengal’s Birbhum, tremors felt in villages

Kolkata, Oct 23 : Mystery has surfaced in a village near Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal following the recovery of a live World War II-era bomb there. Although the Army personnel posted at a nearby base successfully defused the bomb recovered from Laudaha village near Bolpur, which houses the iconic Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore-founded Visva Bharati University, a mystery has cropped up as to how the bomb was brought to that spot and rem…

80-year-old World War II bomb defused by Army in Bengal’s Birbhum district

Local fishermen had first spotted a cylindrical metal object nearly a month ago but initially dismissed it as harmless

Rare World War II bomb discovery near Visva Bharati raises major safety scare - OrissaPOST

Kolkata: Mystery has surfaced in a village near Bolpur in Birbhum district of West Bengal following the recovery of a live World War II-era bomb there. Although the Army personnel posted at a nearby base successfully defused the bomb recovered from Laudaha village near Bolpur, which houses the iconic Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore-founded Visva Bharati University, a mystery has cropped up as to how the bomb was brought to that spot and remained una…