The Czech police evacuated 582 people from the vicinity of a chemical plant in the country’s northwest region after an unexploded bomb was found yesterday.

The Czech refining and petrochemical company said in a statement on its website that an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II was found during excavation work in a remote part of the Orlen Unipetrol plant near Litvinov, Most District.

The police said that the bomb weighing 250 kg will remain in place until August 27.

A crisis team is now meeting to decide on the next course of action.

Meanwhile, experts from the police and the regional fire rescue department intervened, and a partial evacuation was ordered in the refinery part of the plant.