Huge World War II bomb forces mass evacuation in Southern Germany
By Kesavan Unnikrishnan 3 hours ago in World
Germany's biggest evacuation since WWII to take place on Christmas Day as authorities in Augsburg, Southern Germany, plan to evacuate 54,000 people after a 3.8-ton bomb, dropped on the city by Britain during World War II was found during building work.
During World War II, Allied air forces dropped 2.7 million tons of bombs on Europe, more than half of that amount on Germany alone. Unexploded bombs from World War II frequently turns up in German communities, and sometimes authorities are forced to evacuate small areas to dispose of the dangerous explosives. But a huge 3.8 tonne bomb that recently surfaced during construction work has sparked the biggest evacuation in post-war German history.
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