In Frankfurt, Germany, the police successfully defused a massive World War II-era bomb that forced the evacuation of over 60,000 residents. This was considered Germany’s biggest evacuation in recent history, with hospital patients and the elderly among those affected. Similar bomb disposal operations are still common even 72 years after the end of the war. In a separate incident in Koblenz, about 20,000 people were evacuated before specialists disarmed a 500-kilogram U.S. bomb on Saturday. The discovery of the 1.8-ton British bomb in Frankfurt led to the evacuation of residents within a 1.5-kilometer radius of the site in the financial capital of Germany.
Dozens of ambulances were seen lining up early Sunday to evacuate anyone who could not leave the danger zone independently. Additionally, a kindergarten was evacuated last month after a teacher found an unexploded World War II-era bomb on a shelf, which a child had brought inside after finding it during a walk. The continuous discoveries of unexploded bombs from World War II highlight the ongoing risk and necessity of evacuations and bomb disposal operations in Germany.