Sitting on a Time Bomb

In one of the biggest evacuations in Germany since World War II, 70,000 residents of the city of Frankfurt are to move out of their homes while a bomb is defused. It was found at a construction site in the city center.

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The operation to defuse it is planned for Sunday.

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The 4,000 pound (1,814 kilogram) 1.8-tonne or 2-ton device is believed to be a British bomb dating back to the Allies' raids on the city. The bomb was designed to damage buildings more than a kilometer from the center of the explosion.

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The bomb, which may contain 1,400 kilograms of explosives, is one of many which have been uncovered in Germany in recent years.

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US and British air forces dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe between 1940 and the end of the war in 1945, according to the Smithsonian US research group.

Half of the devices were dropped on Germany. An estimated 10 percent of the bombs had failed to explode.

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In December last year, a British bomb identified as a 4,000 pound blockbuster was found in Augsburg. More than 54,000 people had to leave their homes on Christmas Day while it was defused. That to date was the largest evacuation since the end of World War II more than 70 years ago.

  DW

War, the gift that keeps on giving.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.