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Bomb defused in Germany’s Hildesheim after mass evacuation

Other News Materials 17 August 2017 08:09 (UTC +04:00)
Some 22,000 people were allowed to get back into their homes early on Thursday after a wartime bomb was defused overnight in the German city of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony
Bomb defused in Germany’s Hildesheim after mass evacuation

Some 22,000 people were allowed to get back into their homes early on Thursday after a wartime bomb was defused overnight in the German city of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, the mayor said., Sputnik reported.

"Within a comparatively short period of time we managed to evacuate a very large area with a population of almost 20,000 – a huge success for a 800-strong force, who conducted the evacuation allowing for the bomb to be defused as fast as possible," Ingo Meyer said in a statement.

Hildesheim police said a World War Two-era British bomb was discovered during construction works on Wednesday afternoon in the historic inner part of the city, prompting evacuation within a 1,000 meter radius. The mayoral office said schools close to the site would reopen this morning.

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