Overview

• Construction workers unearthed an undetonated World War II device at a Quarry Bay site on Friday measuring about 1.5 meters and 450 kilograms.
• Police cleared roughly 6,000 people from 18 residential and commercial buildings and shut roads across the neighborhood.
• Authorities conducted door-to-door checks from around 6 p.m. to ensure residents had left the affected buildings.
• Bomb disposal teams planned to begin work early Saturday, with one report estimating about 12 hours though a similar 2018 operation took around 20 hours.
• Officials said the ordnance is the same type as a 2018 Wan Chai find and likely an M65 bomb believed to remain in good condition.