{{A Japanese military squad has safely removed a 250-kilogram (550 pound) World War II bomb found two weeks ago near the runway of a major airport in northern Japan.}}<\/p>\n
The team defused the rusty bomb Wednesday and then transported it away from Sendai Airport. More than 30 flights were canceled while they worked.<\/p>\n
Sendai Airport was heavily damaged by last year’s tsunami and the bomb was uncovered in construction related to its restoration. <\/p>\n
The airport was immediately closed, but troops piled hundreds of sandbags around the bomb so that flights could resume the next day.<\/p>\n
The airport was closed again Wednesday morning as the bomb was removed.<\/p>\n
The United States heavily bombed Japanese cities during World War II, and finding unexploded bombs is not unusual, even 67 years after Japan’s surrender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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