Bomb unearthed in Berlin

Antipodean Andy · Jul 16, 2008

WWII bomb forces mass evacuation | NEWS.com.au

ABOUT 5000 people were evacuated in Berlin overnight after a 500-kilogram bomb from World War II was discovered in a residential neighbourhood.

Explosives experts took the British bomb, unearthed Tuesday by construction workers in the western district of Wilmersdorf with its detonator still intact, to a nearby park to be defused.

Residents were taken to shelters overnight, two petrol stations were shuttered and traffic on adjacent roads and a stretch of the autobahn was rerouted.

The Allies unleashed more than 440,000 bombs on the German capital during World War II, according to local press reports.

The discovery of unexploded ordnance is still common more than 60 years after the war.
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