Local authorities in Dusseldorf, Germany, ordered 13,000 inhabitants to temporarily leave their houses after discovering a bomb from World War II.
The police and a bomb disposal squad joined forces, according to the German news agency Deutsche Welle (DW), to securely dispose of a World War II-era undetonated device. The shell, which weighed a metric tonne, was discovered close to the urban zoo between August 7 and 8, during typical daytime hours.
Numerous studies emphasise the fact that Germany is still unearthing artefacts from the past, demonstrating that there are thousands of unexploded bombs from both World Wars still buried in the country’s soil.
The authorities in Dusseldorf issued a directive ordering the evacuation of everyone who lived within a 500-meter radius of the bomb’s location. Roads in this planned evacuation zone were temporarily closed at the same time to help with the proper disposal operation.
Some of the residents who were leaving their homes chose to bring their pets with them.
A whopping 65,000 people had to be evacuated after the discovery of a large 1.4-ton bomb in Frankfurt back in 2017.
Think back to December 2021, when a World War II bomb went off near the Munich station at a building site. Four people were hurt in this tragedy, and the train system was completely wrecked.
