BERLIN – German bomb disposal experts have successfully defused a 1.8-tonne unexploded second World War bomb in the river Rhine, after thousands of residents were evacuated from homes, hospitals and even a prison.
Germany is littered with unexploded US and British bombs.
But the British aerial mine defused yesterday was one of the biggest found in the country, and the alert caused disruption across the city of Koblenz.
Some 45,000 people were cleared from an area of 1.8km (1.1 miles) around the bomb. – (Reuters)
