Frankfurt residents evacuated after second world war bomb found

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters


Discovery of unexploded WWII bomb in German financial capital forces evacuation of thousands of residents
Reuters in Frankfurt
Sunday 3 September 2017 04.07 EDT

Thousands of residents in Frankfurt evacuated their homes early on Sunday ahead of the planned defusing of a massive second world war bomb discovered on a building site in the German financial capital.

A steady flow of people filed into a temporary centre at Frankfurt’s trade fair site, in Germany’s biggest evacuation since the war.

The bomb was found last week in the city’s leafy Westend suburb, where many wealthy bankers live, and the evacuation area included the country’s central bank where $70bn in gold reserves are stored.

About 60,000 people had to leave their homes and Frankfurt fire and police chiefs said they would use force if necessary to clear the area, warning that an uncontrolled explosion of the bomb would be big enough to flatten a city block.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/03/frankfurt-residents-evacuated-after-second-world-war-bomb-found

[DFW]

1. Tell me about it. I was in Frankfurt on Friday

Luckily not quite in the area where the bomb was found, but a few streets further, and I could have turned around and gone home without seeing anyone.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Wow!

[gopiscrap]

3. that's my home town

the population density in that area is really high. A bomb blast like that would do serious horrible damage and lots of deaths in that area.

[Doreen]

4. That is scary that there seems to be so many unfound bombs.

The one in the Kindergarten is odd as you would think sometime in all the years since the war they would notice the bomb on a shelf with toys. Have they not cleaned the shelf since world war II?

[oneshooter]

5. All of Europe is still finding bombs and artillery shells.

In France there is an area around Verdun that is still off limits to everybody.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3125088/Inside-toxic-grave-longest-battle-history-French-forest-300-000-died-300-days-Battle-Verdun-littered-bodies-arsenic-unexploded-shells-grows-100-years.html

[Doreen]

6. The horrors of war never stop no matter how long ago they were.

Trump is about to start another one to this magnitude or possibly greater.

[Angry Dragon]

8. Thanks for the link

[a la izquierda]

7. I work about 500 feet from where they found it.

Good times, yesterday. Trains all over Germany had delays because of the blockages around Frankfurt.