I dunno, I work under the assumption stuff can be rebuilt... people can’t.
Ordinace that is 65+ years old, my gut just says evacuate the area and blow the mother up.
This may just not be practicle in europe because old ordinance is being found so frequently, but still, that’s where my mind goes.
IIRC, this is the first time the diffusing EOD people have been killed doing this. They're doing something right. Normally you wrench it open, pop the fuse and you're good, no real danger to anyone (although civilians get evacuated for blocks). But with these delayed fuses they will blow in place if they think it's too unstable. Probably this time they misjudged how unstable it was.