Frankfurt emergency service staff started to evacuate patients from two hospitals in Germany's financial capital on Saturday, ahead of the planned defusing of a massive bomb from the Second World War. Some 60,000 people have to leave their homes early on Sunday in Germany's biggest evacuation since the war while officials disarm the 1.4-tonne British bomb. More than 100 hospital patients, including premature infants and those in intensive care, were moved Saturday, Frankfurt city Coun. In July, a kindergarten was evacuated after teachers discovered an unexploded WW II bomb on a shelf among some toys. The HC 4000 bomb is assumed to have been dropped by Britain's Royal Air Force during the 1939-45 war.

Source: CBC News September 02, 2017 21:26 UTC