German city to evacuate 45,000 for bomb disposal Officials in Germany's western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated as officials try to defuse a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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They are still pulling stuff from the fields of WW1.
Be happy you get to miss all this.
Must be a very anxious experience all round.
I just hope that everyone has a home to come home to.
Must be a very anxious experience all round.
They have a of experience with this.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16018659
About 600 tonnes of unexploded ordnance are discovered in Germany every year, our correspondent says.
It's also quite common for people to be digging in their garden and accidentally uncover an unexploded bomb dropped by a Luftwaffe plane, leading to the authorities evacuating all the residents in the street and anybody else living in a half-mile radius. For all I know, there could be an unexploded German bomb just feet away from where I am now.
It wasn't until the 1970s that all of Britain's beaches were declared safe from mines. Up until then many civilians were killed just for going to the beach. One Dorset beach was declared safe and open to the public, but it proved fatal to five schoolboys who played with a mine that they found.
And research has shown that the UK - and many other European countries - are still absolutely littered with unexploded and, therefore, life-threatening WWII ordnance.
So, 66 years after it has ended, WWII still had the potential to kill and maim people.