Frankfurt: mass evacuation by bomb without deto …

Some 13,000 people were evacuated on Sunday in Frankfurt (West Germany), as experts prepared to defuse an unexploded bomb dropped on the city during the Second World War.

The British-made bomb weighing 500 kilograms was found on Thursday at a construction site in a western district of the German financial capital, local emergency services said.

The authorities have decided on an evacuation radius of 700 meters in an area where there are several nursing homes, heating and internet infrastructure, as well as facilities of the national railway company, Deutsche Bahn.

Deactivation work is expected to continue into the evening due to restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said.

Seventy-five years after the end of the war, Germany is still strewn with unexploded ordnance, often found during demolition or construction work.

Earlier this year, experts deactivated seven bombs from WWII World found at the place where the first European Tesla factory (electric cars and their components) will be built, on the outskirts of the capital, Berlin

Several bombs in Cologne and Dortmund have also been defused this year.

In 2017, a 1.4-ton bomb was discovered and defused in Frankfurt, causing the evacuation of 65,000 people in the largest operation of its kind since the end of the war in Europe in 1945.