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(29 Aug 2012) Part of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport was evacuated on Wednesday after workers unearthed a World War II bomb near the airport's main terminal - one of Europe's busiest aviation hubs.
The bomb was safely detonated, allowing normal airport activity to resume.
Airport spokeswoman Karin Heldeweg said Schiphol's Pier C was shut down for arriving and departing flights while bomb disposal experts checked the bomb and decided what to do with it.
It was uncovered early on Wednesday by workers digging trenches near the pier to lay pipes. The pier houses many of Schiphol's departure and arrival gates.
Major Henk Silk explained that the bomb could have potentially caused a great deal of damage, had it exploded.
"It's 250 kilograms (550 lbs) of explosive, where you get a crater of 12 meters (39 feet) in diameter, five to six metre (16-19 feet) in depth and the fragments will fly about 1300 metres (4265 feet)," Silk said.
Nazi forces who occupied the Netherlands in WWII took over Schiphol and used it as a base for Luftwaffe aircraft. It was repeatedly bombed by Allied air forces.
The scare at Schiphol came a day after a World War II bomb was detonated in the German city of Munich, sparking fires in several nearby buildings that had been evacuated after the bomb was discovered on Monday.

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