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A suspected wartime bomb was found at a construction site at Hong Kong airport last month.
Police cleared about 900 people from the area. After about four hours, police detonated it.
Police said that officers were alerted by a construction worker that the suspected bomb, measuring 30cm by 7cm, had been discovered. Officers from the explosive ordnance disposal bureau set off the bomb about four hours later and reopened the site.
A source said the bomb was a British-made three-inch mortar round.
Bomb disposal officers had to set off the bomb on site due to its poor condition. The source added that the explosives in the bomb were found to be unstable.
The source said: “Any further movement would have created unnecessary danger.”
The Airport Authority said workers had discovered the suspicious object near the Terminal 2 concourse construction site.
Small explosives such as wartime mortar rounds and grenades have been discovered over the years.
In 2021, a military enthusiast found four grenades and a mortar from World War II on a slope close to the Wilson Trail in Tai Tam Country Park near Stanley on Hong Kong Island.
