FRANKFURT — Bomb disposal experts defused a huge unexploded World War II-era bomb in the German financial capital Frankfurt that forced the evacuation of more than 60,000 residents, police said Sunday. Hospital patients and the elderly were among those affected in what was Germany’s biggest evacuation in recent history. Officials ordered residents to evacuate homes within a 1.5-kilometre (nearly a mile) radius of the site in Germany’s financial capital. Authorities warned that if the bomb had exploded, the shock wave could have caused widespread damage throughout the western part of the city. About 20,000 people were evacuated from the western city of Koblenz before specialists disarmed a 500-kilogram U.S. bomb there Saturday.

Source: National Post September 03, 2017 08:03 UTC