Fourth bomb at museum

BOMB disposal squads have been called in for the fourth time in months to defuse wartime bombs found on the docks site of the Musée des Civilisations d’Europe et de la Méditerranée in Marseille.

Each year French teams deal with 10 tonnes of WWI and WWII ordnance, destroying grenades, rockets, bombs and mines, the highest in Europe.

The latest discovery of two 250kg bombs follows the evacuation of 1,500 homes in the docks area as the team defused a one-tonne German bomb with 650kg of explosive.

Bombs are usually dealt with on the spot, but the one-tonne bomb was taken to a military camp in the Var and blown up. In January a 250kg bomb was dumped at sea.