54,000 evacuated on Christmas after Germany finds WWII bomb

It was a British explosve that was found in a city of Augsburg and led to a biggest mobilisation in Germany — around 900 military officers — given a fight itself.

The 1.8-tonne explosve had been found on Tuesday during work during a construction site in a centre of a Bavarian city, though authorities designed to defuse a explosve around mid-day Sunday.

“Today we ask everybody endangered to leave a area, if probable by themselves,” pronounced Augsburg mayor Kurt Gribi in a video summary posted on a city’s Twitter account.

Gribi also called for “each chairman to determine that their relatives, relatives and friends have found places to stay outward a (security) zone… Look out for one another.”

The defusing could take adult to 5 hours, according to a authorities, who guess that a evacuees will not be means to lapse home before a evening.

Admittedly this was an surprising Christmas day in Augsburg, a city orator told TV channel n24, adding that hopefully people would willingly leave their homes given a approaching “force of a explosion” during a defusing of a bomb.

More than 70 years after a finish of a war, unexploded bombs are still found buried on German territory, vestiges of a heated bombing campaigns by a Allied army opposite Nazi Germany.