Some 54,000 people were told to evacuate their homes in a southern German city on Christmas Day so that authorities could disarm an unexploded 1.8 tonne aerial bomb dropped by the British during World War 2. The bomb which was found last week during construction work on an underground car park in the city of Augsburg forced the biggest single evacuation for an unexploded Allied bomb in post-war Germany. PRI.org reports: The 1.8-ton explosive was found on Tuesday during work at a construction site in the Bavarian city, but authorities waited until Sunday to coordinate the logistics necessary to make it safe. More than 70 years after the end of the war, unexploded bombs are regularly found buried on German land, legacies of the intense bombing campaigns by the Allied forces against Nazi Germany. Augsburg, the third-largest city in Bavaria, was targeted several times during the war. A 1,500-meter exclusion zone was created for the operation in case the bomb exploded while engineers were trying to deactivate it and sandbags were set up all around. Two experts defused the explosive, which was described as a “mega bomb” according to police spokesman Manfred Gottschalk cited by DPA news agency. Police checked house [...]
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