About 13,000 people have been called to temporarily leave their homes in a district of Düsseldorf (western Germany) after the discovery of an American bomb dating from the Second World War, said Monday, August 7, the firefighters of the city. The American bomb that weighs a ton must be defused in the night from Monday to Tuesday. It was discovered during work in this neighborhood near the zoo, according to the statement of the firefighters.
The ground in German cities remains riddled with unexploded bombs that are regularly discovered on construction sites, 78 years after the end of the Second World War. In 2017, the discovery in Frankfurt (west) of a 1.4-ton bomb led to the evacuation of 65,000 people. In December 2021, a World War II bomb exploded on a construction site near the train station in Munich (south), injuring four people and interrupting rail traffic.