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Thousands evacuated after WWII bomb found in Cologne
Published: 29 Sep 2016 10:47 GMT+02:00
Updated: 29 Sep 2016 10:47 GMT+02:00
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Several thousands people were being evacuated from a district of Cologne just north of the old town on Thursday morning, after a Second World War bomb was found in a parking lot.
Explosives experts from Cologne police were searching the neighbourhood of Riehl, on the west bank of the Rhine on Wednesday when they the discovered the American-made explosive, the Rheinische Post reports.
A total of 3,500 people who live within a 700-metre radius of the discovery are set to be affected by the evacuation.
https://www.thelocal.de/20160929/thousands-evacuated-after-wwii-bomb-find-in-cologne
