This is what happens when a 500-pound bomb flattens your neighborhood

A Coconuts reader sent in these photos showing what happened to her home after a World War II-era bomb went off nearby on Tuesday. At least eight people including a 3-year-old girl were killed by the blast when a worker tried to disassemble to bomb with a plasma torch.

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