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Defusing World War II bomb will force evacuation in Germany

A German police officer passes a blue tent that was set up over a 1.8-ton bomb of a type dropped by British bombers during World War II in Frankfurt. City authorities plan to evacuate more than 60,000 people from their homes on Sunday to defuse the bomb found during construction work this week. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
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The Associated Press
August 31, 2017 - 3:03 am
 

BERLIN — City authorities in Frankfurt plan to evacuate more than 60,000 people from their homes on Sunday to defuse a World War II bomb found during construction work.

The 1.8-ton bomb of a type dropped by British bombers was unearthed Tuesday. City councilor Markus Frank said Thursday it contains 1.4 tons of explosives.

Frank said that a radius of nearly a mile around the bomb will have to be evacuated as a precaution ahead of the disposal itself, which is expected to take about four hours.

Officials are describing the planned evacuation as Germany’s biggest yet, though similar operations are still common more than 70 years after the war ended. In May, for example, around 50,000 people had to leave their homes in Hannover temporarily for a bomb disposal.

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