Berlin:
Explosives experts in Germany detonated the remains of a 550-pound (250 kilogrammes) World War II bomb in central Munich on Tuesday evening.
The DAPD news agency cited a police spokesman as saying the bomb was successfully destroyed on Tuesday evening.
Still, burning debris caused fires in several nearby buildings that had been evacuated after the bomb was discovered on Monday in the Schwabing district.
More than 3-thousand residents were evacuated.
Efforts to defuse the bomb failed and experts decided to pack it with explosives and detonate it rather than risk an uncontrolled explosion.
Allied airplanes dropped millions of tonnes of ordnance on Germany during World War II in an effort to cripple the Nazi war machine.
Tens of thousands of unexploded bombs are believed still to be lying in the ground across Germany.