How Bomb Shelters Look in Different Countries

Among the countries where people frequently have to take shelter in case of rocket attacks, Israel stands out. Locals have been to bomb shelters so often that in some cases they have adopted a creative approach to these facilities and decorated them with artwork.

In some European countries, bomb shelters have even been transformed into art objects.

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A concrete bomb shelter is decorated with artwork, in Sderot, Israel, on Tuesday, 20 July 2021.

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In this long-exposure photo, taken with a fisheye lens, the International Space Station (ISS) follows its orbit above an entrance with "Bomb Shelter" written on the side, where people hide from night shelling, in the Petrovsky district, Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on 4 August 2014.

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People relaxing in a former bomb shelter to escape the hot weather in Wuhu, China's eastern Anhui province on 25 July 2017.

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A car is seen at the entrance of a bomb shelter in Export Street just north of downtown Riga, Latvia on 26 May 2009.

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An escape staircase at a nuclear shelter from the Cold War era is pictured at the five-star Jalta Hotel in downtown Prague, Czech Republic on 4 December 2013.

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An member of staff at the Metropole hotel shows a guest the war-time bomb shelter in Hanoi, Vietnam on 2 October 2012.

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A picture shows double blast doors at the main entrance to the nuclear bunker on the outskirts of Ballymena in Northern Ireland.

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A Sri Lankan Tamil villager Markanbu Anandan, 48, right, digs a bomb shelter in his backyard, in Kilinochchi, 328km north of Colombo, Sri Lanka on 20 June 2006.

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An elderly woman sits inside a bomb shelter in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijan.

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Atlas Survival Shelters owner Ron Hubbard shows his galvanized corrugated pipe shelters at a plant in Montebello, California on 12 August 2013.

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Visitors pose for photographs next to contemporary art displayed at the war bunker, near the town of Konjic, 80km south of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on 26 April 2013. The once-secret bunker, built to shelter Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the communist leadership from a nuclear war, became for three months one of the world's quirkiest contemporary art galleries.

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Entrance to a bomb shelter in Moscow.

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Indian border villagers take shelter in an Indian army bunker during alleged firing from the Pakistan side of the Line of Control during ongoing clashes in Abdullian village, some 37km from Jammu, on 24 August 2014.

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People gather at a bomb shelter on South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island to take cover after the alarm went off to warn against a possible North Korean rocket attack on 28 November 2010.