Cologne (TEH) – In Cologne, a ten-hundredweight bomb from the Second World War was defused on the banks of the Rhine. The city of Cologne announced that the two explosives from Dusseldorf would have made the unexploded ordnance harmless on Saturday after just over a quarter of an hour. The approximately 1.60-meter-long explosive device had been discovered by a stroller on Good Friday evening.
He had seen the bomb and then called the police to inform the city of Cologne, the regulatory agency reported. Four officers from the office kept watch on the dangerous explosive device in Cologne-Merkenich all night, and the area was blocked on Easter Saturday by a radius of 750 meters to disarm the American bomb. 151 residents had to leave their homes. Roads were blocked off, shipping traffic on the Rhine was stopped and airspace was blocked. A large chemical production site on the other bank in Leverkusen was also involved in the measures, and the ten-hundredweight bomb did not cause any problems for the two explosive ordnance clearance officers and was easy to defuse.
The work was done in just over a quarter of an hour: “It was very quick for two detonators,” said Jennifer Hedderich of the Cologne Ordnungsamt. The office was deployed with 37 employees, and the police also helped. “Ambulance transports were not necessary,” said the city. In Cologne, duds from WWII have to be defused comparatively often.
