BERLIN, Dec. 6 (UPI) — More than 2,000 people were evacuated from a Berlin neighborhood on Tuesday after crews dug up an old bomb believed to have been dropped during World War II.
The dirt-clad and rusted 100-pound munition was found in the Neukölln neighborhood of the German capital — which was the nerve center for Nazi Germany during the war.
Berlin Police, which documented the entire ordeal on Twitter Tuesday, said the bomb was found in front of Sülzhayner Str. 17 by construction workers, who’d been digging in the area.
More than 2,500 people were sent away from the area and technicians worked to defuse the bomb after transportation into the area was stopped and gas lines serving the neighborhood turned off.
Unser Einsatzleiter Herr Richter begutachtet die erfolgreiche Arbeit der Entschärfer. #dankesagen
Sky News reported that the bomb had two detonators, one of which was described as a “bouncer” when it was exploded by the bomb squad.
No one was injured.
U.S. and allied forces dropped thousands of bombs on Nazi Germany during World War II, many of which went unexploded and have turned up in the decades since during digging.
A larger 550-pound Russian bomb was also unearthed in Berlin last month, triggering a similar evacuation and defusing.
