Hong Kong (CNN) Hong Kong authorities successfully defused a newly unearthed World War II-era bomb on Sunday, according to police. explosive was discovered during construction near the Hong Kong Convention Center on Saturday, Hong Kong police said on their official Facebook page . The discovery of the bomb prompted authorities to evacuate approximately 1,500 people in the Wan Chai neighborhood of the city, police said. According to US military archives, the US Army Air Corps began the bombing of Hong Kong in the fall of 1942, striking the city dozens of times. Hong Kong police work to defuse a World War II-era bomb found in the city's Wan Chai area.

Source: CNN January 28, 2018 17:03 UTC