FRANKFURT — Thousands of people, some of them shaken, were evacuated Wednesday from a neighborhood of Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt following the discovery of a massive World War II bomb.
City authorities said 25,000 people were evacuated from the densely populated Nordend area after the 500 kilogram bomb was unearthed during construction work.
Bomb disposal teams are due to detonate the explosive once they cover it with soil, the authorities said.
People sheltering at a skating rink expressed concern about the latest discovery of a World War II bomb, which still occurs regularly 76 years after the war’s end.
Tobias, 29, said he heard the news over a police …
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