Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe NISHITOKYO, Japan, July 10 (UPI) -- Thousands of residents were evacuated from western Tokyo suburbs Sunday after an unexploded bomb was found buried in a farm field. About 7,000 people were evacuated as a precaution while a Ground Self-Defense Force unit was called in to dispose of the dud shell -- which is believed to have been dropped by the U.S. military during World War II, according to Kyodo News. Advertisement It took about 30 minutes to remove the detonator from the so-called "one-ton bomb," which was buried nearly 33 feet underground.
