Sun Dec 04, 10:41 AM Associated Press BERLIN —
Firefighters say a massive British World War II-era bomb
that triggered the evacuation of half of Germany's western city of
Koblenz was successfully defused. Koblenz firefighter spokesman Heiko Breitbarth said Sunday experts
were able to defuse the 1.8 ton bomb and a 275-pound U.S. bomb that had
been discovered last month in the Rhine river. He says the evacuation order still remains in place because a smaller
smoke grenade found nearby will be brought to a controlled explosion.Some 45,000 residents living within a radius of about 2 kilometres
from the bomb site had to leave their homes Sunday in what was one of
Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended. About
2,500 police officers, firefighters and paramedics were on duty across
the city to secure the operation.
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45,000 Germans evacuated due to WWII bombs - Rick Noack, CNNDecember 4, 2011
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