Bomb disposal expert knows who's to blame
"Protection of life; preservation of property and returning the area to normal as quickly as possible."
Those are the three priorities in a bomb situation, whatever the circumstances.
Bomb disposal expert Chris Hunter says this was clearly an unstable device. Buried under Exeter soil since the blitz of 1942, there was always a chance it would still detonate.
It did - but the services did their duty and did it well.
No one was hurt in a blast that was heard for miles - in an explosion that led to mass evacuation at a time of a pandemic.
This interview is from BBC Spotlight.
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