Authorities in the German city of Cologne have defused three unexploded World War Two bombs after the evacuation of more than 20,000 people. Bomb squad technicians deactivated the American bombs on ...

Unexploded bombs are often found in Germany, where many major cities sustained heavy damage during the war.Central Cologne in particular was nearly decimated in 1942 as the first target of the ...

06/04/2025 June 4, 2025. Buildings across the center of the western city of Cologne were evacuated after the discovery of three World War II bombs. Some 20,000 people had been under evacuation orders.

The German city of Cologne has finished evacuating 20,500 people, its largest evacuation order since World War II, after officials defused three massive, unexploded bombs.

Cologne defuses WW2 bombs after 20,000 evacuated. ... Finding bombs from WW2 is not unusual in German cities such as Cologne and Berlin, but these bombs were particularly large.

A person works by a cordoned off area near the Cologne Cathedral, after the discovery of World War II-era bombs during exploratory work, affecting over 20,000 people, who had to be evacuated on ...

The German city of Cologne announced that three unexploded bombs from World War II, which were discovered earlier this week and prompted evacuation orders for over 20,000 people, have now been defused ...

Bomb squad technicians deactivated the American bombs on Wednesday after evacuating an area of around 10,000 sq m (107,639 sq ft) following their discovery in a shipyard in Deutz on Monday. Homes, ...

BERLIN — Some 20,500 people were evacuated on Wednesday from the city of Cologne, in western Germany, as explosives experts prepared to defuse three unexploded World War II bombs found during ...

Finding bombs from WW2 is not unusual in German cities such as Cologne and Berlin, but these bombs were particularly large. Many of the city's usually bustling streets were eerily deserted because ...