10,000 evacuate in Berlin for WWII bomb removal
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Some 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes in western Berlin, trains were stopped and a main highway was blocked so specialists could remove a World War II-era bomb discovered during construction work.
Specialists defused the 250-kilogram (550-pound) bomb successfully early Tuesday in the Tempelhof-Schoeneberg district of the German capital. It had been found during construction work near a freight depot and was described by police as a German bomb with a Russian detonator.
Last month, 60,000 people had to evacuate when a bomb was found in the German city in Frankfurt.
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Even more than 70 years after the end of the war, bombs and other munitions still turn up regularly during construction work in Germany — a testament to the ferocity of World War II.