MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Around 10,000 residents are being evacuated from their homes in the western German city of Koblenz as bomb disposal experts prepare to defuse a US-made World-War-II bomb, local fire department said.
The 2,200-pound bomb was discovered on Thursday at a construction site. It will be defused at noon (10:00 GMT).
German SWR television station quoted Fire Department spokesman Manfred Morschhaeuser on Sunday urging residents to go to safety as soon as possible:
"The bomb is in a bad condition. And the second fuse is under the earth. So [experts] first need to reach it."
WWII-time bombs are frequently found in Germany. Almost a half of the city’s population – 45,000 – were evacuated in Koblenz in December 2011 when two British bombs were found in a local riverbed.
