Unexploded Ordnance

British authorities were forced to close off a large area surrounding a construction site when an unexploded V-1 missile was discovered.

LONDON (Reuters) - Police closed streets near London's Canary Wharf financial district on Saturday after an unexploded German flying bomb from World War Two was found on a construction site.

Bomb disposal experts were called in to make the V1 missile safe after it was unearthed close to the east London complex that houses 80,000 office workers during the working week, police said. At weekends the area is busy with shoppers and visitors.

Police closed several roads around the site in Millharbour, a road in the former docklands.

Things like this turn up all the time in Britain, of course. There is a lot of unexploded ordnances all over the country. The V-1s were the forerunner of today's cruise missiles. Almost 10,000 of them were launched at Britain during the war. Around 2,400 of those hit London, killing some 6,000 people, mostly civilians.