20,000 people are evacuated to defuse bomb II … – El Universal (Venezuela)

 EFE
 

Wednesday May 27, 2015 8:12 a.m.

Berlin .- About 20,000 residents have been evacuated Cologne today pursuant to a municipal order for specialists proceed to defuse a bomb from World War II found in this German maintained.

This is the largest evacuation is recorded in Cologne since the end of the war, although such operations are not uncommon in Germany. Last week 31,000 people of Hannover had to leave their homes to clear an artifact of 250 kilos, Efe said.

As explained today the City of Cologne, the evacuation began at 9.00 local time (7.00 GMT) and affected neighborhoods Riehl and Mülheim, including a nursing home from which they were evicted about a thousand people.

The schools located in those neighborhoods and the zoo remained closed.

around 14.00 and after flying a helicopter-from one square kilometer area around the pump-, municipal authorities, which made available to the various neighboring facilities, gave the nod to the evacuation.

the paralysis of air traffic on the area and river traffic on the stretch of the Rhine near and begin the process of disabling artifact The largest evacuation in Germany was then announced.

to ensure security of neighboring pump after the Second World War took place in 2011 in Koblenz, where 45,000 people have fled their homes detected.