Tens of thousands of people are staying away from their homes in the Greek city of Thessaloniki today while a 250kg unexploded World War II bomb is defused.
Hundreds of police officers have been knocking on doors to order people living within a roughly 2km radius of the bomb site to leave.
An estimated 75,000 people are set to evacuate the area, where a state of emergency has been declared.
Trains have been halted and church services cancelled, with some residents being transported by bus to schools, sports halls and other makeshift shelters.
The bomb, which was dropped in an air raid in the 1940s, was found this month during work to expand storage tanks at a fuel station.
Experts are expected to spend all day defusing it.
Voula Patoulidou, deputy governor of Thessaloniki, which lies in the north of the country, said: "It's the first time something like this is happening in Greece."
Greek media has reported the bomb was dropped by a British plane in 1943, but this has not been confirmed.
Although unprecedented in Greece, discoveries of unexploded WWII bombs are not uncommon in Britain and other countries.
Last May, experts deactivated a 250kg shell at a school playground in Bath. In November, a controlled explosion was carried out on a bomb that had been dislodged from the seabed in Portsmouth Harbour.
And in Germany, thousands of people had to leave their homes in a suburb of Berlin two months ago so an unexploded bomb could be defused.
People had to be evacuated on 23 January when a bomb from the conflict was found near a Hong Kong university.
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