Police say it could take up to 48 hours before residents in Bath are allowed home following the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb at a school.
A 300-metre exclusion zone remains in place in the Lansdown area of the city - affecting hundreds of homes.
Tonight the device was made safe by experts and is expected to be removed from the site.
Specialist explosives experts from the British Army began removing an unexploded World War II bomb from a residential area in Bath on Friday.
The British Army tweeted: "Army personnel from 721 EOD Sqn RLC support Avon and Somerset Constabulary deal with WW2 bomb in #Bath #BathBomb#".
A 300-metre exclusion zone remains in place in the Lansdown area of the city - affecting hundreds of homes - as efforts continue to remove the device, which weighs over 200kg.
As many as 1000 homes were evacuated last night after a World War Two bomb was discovered underneath a former school in Bath.
Local residents have been evacuated to a nearby racecourse after a WWII bomb was discovered at a school in Bath.