Frankfurt defuses 500kg World War II bomb
- 06 Dec 2020
Gulf Today Report
About 13,000 residents got evacuated on Sunday in Frankfurt due to defusion of an unexploded World War II bomb.
The British bomb that weighed 500-kilogramme was found on a construction site on Thursday, said the emergency services.
A 700-metre (half-mile) evacuation radius was set up in the west of the city centre.
75 years post-world war but Germany still finds unexploded ordnance. They are usually found during construction.
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At the beginning of 2020, seven World War II bombs were defused in Berlin.
Sizeable bombs have also been defused in Cologne and Dortmund this year.
In 2017, the discovery of a 1.4-tonne bomb in Frankfurt prompted the evacuation of 65,000 people -- the largest such operation since the end of the war in Europe in 1945.