21.   Embassy spokesman Richard Hoagland said the local security service called in a federal bomb disposal squad that defused the device.

22.   Five hours later British army experts defused the device, which had been abandoned on a street filled with vendors and pedestrians.

23.   It quoted Interior Minister Bogomil Bonev as saying he would reward the officers who found and defused the device.

24.   Seven explosive devices were safely defused Sunday around the statue.

25.   The device was safely defused, the ministry said.

26.   The device was defused by bomb experts, he said.

27.   The device was defused.

28.   The device was defused by police.

29.   The first device was defused by bomb specialists in the basement garage of the United Nations, Eckhard said.

30.   The post office alerted police, who evacuated the building and sent in a bomb squad to defuse the device.