All flights to and from London’s City Airport were cancelled on Monday after an unexploded World War II bomb weighing half a tonne was found buried in silt in the River Thames. London City Airport is the city’s fifth biggest and is popular with business travellers. It is London’s most central international airport and is close to major financial districts in the City of London and Canary Wharf. The docklands area of London’s East End was a trading hub in the 1940s and was heavily bombed by German planes in World War Two. Regional airline CityJet said its flights from the airport had been rescheduled to land and take off from London Southend airport, while Italy’s Alitalia said it would operate flights from London Stansted airport.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 12, 2018 13:07 UTC