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German town evacuated as authorities work to defuse WWII bomb

The British bomb was found last week alongside a 275 pound bomb dropped there by US forces during WWII, after Rhine’s water level fell due to lack of rain.

The city of Koblenz lies beside the Rhine river where the WWII era bomb has been discovered
The city of Koblenz lies beside the Rhine river where the WWII era bomb has been discovered
Image: via Google Satellite

OFFICIALS IN GERMANY’s western city of Koblenz say some 45,000 residents have to be evacuated as officials try to defuse a World War II era bomb discovered in the Rhine river.

City officials said yesterday the massive British 1.8 ton bomb will be defused early today, requiring all residents within a radius of about two kilometres (1.2 miles) from the bomb site to leave their homes for the day.

Officials say seven nursing homes, two hospitals and a prison are also being evacuated. Train and road traffic in the area, some 130 kilometres northwest of Frankfurt, will come to a halt.

The British bomb was found last week alongside a 275 pound bomb dropped there by US forces during WWII, after Rhine’s water level fell due to lack of rain.

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Comments (15 Comments)

  • Timely reminder of what can happen when those in power screw up,

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  • First off, I apologise for anything in my comments that you found abusive. I genuinely believed you must be a troll that was trying to wind up other readers and that no sane, reasonable person could hold the views that you expressed. I stand corrected. I still stand by my opinion that you are a racist as shown by your Twitter comments in relation to the riots in the U.K.

    Secondly, I said nothing in my comments that condones or excuses the horrible actions of any nation or race that has perpetrated any of the atrocities that have occurred in the history of the world. Your own examples included.

    I just found it astonishing that any one could try to justify the actions of the third reich by claiming “it was the Russians”.

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  • Bitty 04/12/11 #

    People just cant deal with the truth thats why they dislike my comments. I wish ignorance could be punished. Open your eyes people n stop believing everything in the media. Cause none are independent anymore.

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  • Bitty 04/12/11 #

    Nobody ever talks about the turks that have killed so many armenians. Nobody talks about the americans killing vietnamese people….nobody talks about british people killing germans…all i hear constantly is the bad bad germans killing jews…. It was one man that ordered the killing… And he was austrian but yet the germans still until this day have to pay millions in compensation… Why do the germans not demand money from russia as compensation for the raping and killing of german women during WWII?

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  • DubDon 04/12/11 #

    The Germans want to ensure its diffused intact so they can f*%king drop it on us if their precious euro goes t1ts up!!!

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  • Bitty 04/12/11 #

    So i take it that according to u it is ok that the russians have raped and killed german women and that the turks killed innocent armenians? And welcome to the 21st century….” wud” is the way u spell it nowadays… And thanks for all the abuse…what happened to free speech? It has nothin to do with racism…all i wanted is to make people aware that not only the germans killed people…so did the british the russians the french etc….but people tend to forget that…its just the bad bad germans….

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    • Ah yes my skinheaded freund. This freedom of speech you refer to, is that the one that allows you to say on Twitter that all the riots were caused by ‘the blacks’ and they should be deported to Africa? The ones from the West Indies, Brazil and Australia can stay I guess? Very decent of you.

      Before I forget, can you clarify something for me? If the second world war was caused by your mini-tached buddy responding to those dastardly reds, where do those communist buggers in the Netherlands, Finland and Norway fit into the equation?

      Thank you for educating me by the way, I feel like my eyes have been opened real wide.

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  • Bitty 04/12/11 #

    Everybody gives about about how bad Hitler was trying to kill all those Jews, but the Brits are as bad as Hitler as they tried to kill thousands of innocent Germans. Imagine the damage that could have been done if that bomb would have went off recently.

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  • Bitty 04/12/11 #

    If u were educated n wud stop believing the brainwash schoolbooks u wud know it was the russians. Any independent historian will tell u this. Its a fact they planned to attack germany n stab them in the back. Hitler defended germany

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    • We must meet up and discuss further, what time are visiting hours? I think you could help me with some theories I have about the lizard men from Venus.

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    • Seriously? I mean really? First off, before you ask people to get educated, I ask that you learn to spell. “Wud” is not a word. Secondly, a little look at your Twitter account makes it clear that not only are you German, you’re a blatant racist.

      Now you’re trying to convince us that the Nazis invaded Poland and subsequently killed approx. 6 million Jews (More than a million of these were children.) because Russia was going to stab him in the back?

      Really??

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    • I really hope you’re the troll I suspect you are. Because if the comments above are your genuine opinions, I really feel sorry for you.

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