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Nearly 13,000 residents were evacuated in Frankfurt earlier today when experts defused an unexploded bomb from World War II, local emergency services said.
The 500-kilo British bomb was found Thursday at a construction site in Germany’s financial capital, emergency services said.
A 700-meter (half-mile) evacuation radius was installed west of the city center in an area that included several homes for the elderly, heating and internet infrastructure, and facilities of the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn.
Work was expected to continue into the evening due to coronavirus restrictions, authorities said.
Some 75 years after the war, Germany is still plagued with unexploded ordnance, often discovered during construction work.
Earlier this year, experts defused seven World War II bombs found at the future location of Tesla’s first European factory, on the outskirts of Berlin.
Considerable bombs have also been defused in Cologne and Dortmund this year.
In 2017, the discovery of a 1.4-ton bomb in Frankfurt prompted the evacuation of 65,000 people, the largest operation of its kind since the end of the war in Europe in 1945.
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