Part of Hungary's parliament was evacuated today after an unexploded World War II bomb was discovered during excavation work for a nearby underground garage.
"The northern wing of the parliament and the surrounding area including the Museum of Ethnography have been evacuated after construction workers found a World War II bomb," a spokeswoman for the Hungarian army told state newswire MTI.
The device weighed 100 kilogrammes (220 pounds) and was Soviet-made, she said.
Army experts were now working to defuse the bomb, she added.
Cites and towns across Nazi-allied Hungary were bombed heavily during the final months of the war by US, British or Soviet forces, with Budapest carpet-bombed on 37 occasions.
Many devices were buried in the ground after failing to explode and are often discovered during construction work, leading to 11 evacuations in the capital alone since 2008.
In May, an unexploded Soviet-made World War II shell was discovered embedded in the roof of Budapest's city hall.
In the same month a 70-kilo (154-pound) German bomb from World War II was unearthed at a construction site near the Royal Palace in Budapest's touristy Castle district.
Last October, a 500-kilo (1,100-pound) US-made bomb was discovered in the river Danube close to a railway bridge in the north of the city.
All bombs were defused safely without causing damages or injuries.
