Unexploded Devices

Hungarian police evacuated around 1,500 people in Budapest today after a World War II bomb was discovered during construction work at an apartment block near Buda Castle.

Among the enduring images left by car bombings, overseas or in the United States, is investigators on their hands and knees, crawling through the wreckage searching for clues: a blasting cap or a timing device, a piece of the explosive's casing or a trace of the chemicals used.

Hungarian police evacuated around 1,500 people in Budapest today after a World War II bomb was discovered during construction work at an apartment block near Buda Castle.

Among the enduring images left by car bombings, overseas or in the United States, is investigators on their hands and knees, crawling through the wreckage searching for clues: a blasting cap or a timing device, a piece of the explosive's casing or a trace of the chemicals used.