Massive WWII Bomb Defused Successfully
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A massive WWII bomb that made around hundred thousands of residents to move out in the western city of Koblenz, Germany was defused successfully.
This 275-pound U.S. bomb that has been found last month was successfully defused by experts. It was discovered after the Rhine river’s water level fell significantly because of the prolonged lack of rain, said Heiko Breitbarth, a spokesman for Koblenz’s firefighters.
BERLIN (AP) — A massive British World War II-era bomb that triggered the evacuation of about half of the 107,000 residents ofGermany’s western city of Koblenz was successfully defused Sunday, authorities said.
It was one of Germany’s biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended with some 2,500 police officers, firefighters and paramedics on duty across the city to secure the operation.
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