Watch: World War Two bomb detonated in field

A police force has released footage of the moment a German World War Two bomb was destroyed.

Officers were called to the river at Ely, Cambridgeshire, at about 12:40 GMT on New Year's Eve by a magnet fisher, who had been using a magnet attached to a rope to find metal objects.

An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team arrived and confirmed it was a bomb.

"A kind farmer allowed the teams to use his field for a controlled explosion and the bomb was disposed of safely," a police spokesperson said.

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