00:00 On Monday night, in the German city of Dusseldorf, a World War II-era bomb was found.
00:11 The people of the German city of Dusseldorf were asked to evacuate their homes temporarily
00:15 after the World War II-era bomb was found, firefighters said on August 7.
00:21 At least 13,000 people have been residing in the city.
00:25 The bomb, manufactured in the US, reportedly weighs 500 kilograms.
00:29 As soon as the city authorities were aware of the situation, the necessary actions were
00:33 executed by them.
00:35 According to the firefighters, they were expected to defuse the bomb overnight.
00:39 Police cordoned off the area up to a 500-metre radius from where the bomb was recovered.
00:45 Meanwhile, local schools opened their doors for the residents.
00:50 Following the incident, operations of several trains and local buses were halted.
00:54 This was not the first time unexploded bombs were found in Germany.
00:58 Long-distance trains were disrupted by the discovery of bomb, while several local bus
01:02 and tram lines were halted this time.
01:04 Even 78 years after World War II ended, the ground in many German cities is riddled with
01:09 unexploded bombs that are constantly discovered at construction projects and other excavations.
01:14 According to German news outlets, over 13,000 people were forced to evacuate in Frankfurt
01:19 after a similar-sized British bomb was dug up in 2020.
01:23 In December 2021, a World War II-era bomb exploded at a construction site in Munich,
01:29 in which four people were injured.
01:31 According to media reports, some explosions even took place at the time of defusing them.
01:36 In June 2010, while defusing the World War era bomb, three demolition workers died and
01:41 two people were seriously injured, while a man was killed at a highway construction site
01:45 in Aschaffenburg in 2006.
01:49 A bomb exploded at a construction site in Berlin in 1994, killing three construction
01:53 workers.
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