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Barricade in the Gallus district of Frankfurt after the discovery of a World War II bomb.
Around 12,800 people were evacuated from the Gallus district in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday after an intact World War II bomb was found on a construction site.
It took less than two hours for bomb experts to disarm the 500-kilogram British bomb, which was discovered for the first time on Thursday.
The evacuation took place in the morning. Local traffic was also affected.
Even 75 years after the end of the war, it is common to find unexploded ordnance in Germany. About one-tenth of the millions of bombs dropped by Allied forces on Germany were never detonated, according to Der Spiegel.
Similar bombings were carried out earlier this year in Cologne, Dortmund and outside of Berlin.
The largest evacuation since the war took place in Frankfurt in 2017, when around 65,000 people were married when a British 1.4-ton bomb was defused.
