WWII bomb defused in German city
Jul 03, 2023
Hamburg [Germany], July 3: Around 8,200 people living in the northern German city of Kiel were temporarily evacuated from their homes on Sunday as a bomb disposal team defused a 250-kg device dating back to World War II.
Police in the port city, which was a major naval base during the war, tweeted that the operation had been completed in the Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf district without incident.
The bomb was uncovered during construction work.
On Tuesday, another British bomb was defused in the Schreventeich district in the city.
Some 3,000 residents had to be temporarily evacuated.
In February the discovery of a 550-pound World War II bomb shut down parts of downtown Kaiserslautern, which is home to multiple US bases and the largest overseas American military community.
Kaiserslautern was a regional industrial centre at the time of the World War II and took considerable damage.
Unexploded ordnance left over from World War II is found and defused regularly in major German centres.
About 2,000 tonnes of unexploded bombs and other munitions are found each year in Germany, which was heavily bombarded by Allied forces during World War II.
Source: Qatar Tribune
