11,000 evacuated after WWII bomb found in Kreuzberg

In the Kreuzberg district of Berlin on Sunday, around 11,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes after a 250kg WWII-era bomb was discovered on a building site near the Jüdisches Museum on Lindenstrasse.

Kreuzberg district, Berlin. <span class="media-attribution">Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/schnappi/5692923353/in/photolist-9Ve5x7-2Qc5ft-oaydys-aLmf4Z-9FWFJL-9FWFL3-9FWFHu-mGebm-9F7CM7-5jEQHh-8nrQnd-5jEQGW-9F4HLV-aLjLgM-aLkQ1H-aLm9ve-aLkLtx-bwaQEN-bK5EPX-5UvRea-aLkNoX-aLjgtx-aLjcz8-aLm7jr-aLjqAX-aLkXFn-aLjsmT-aLjHT4-aLjQ6a-aLjiDp-5jEQGG-5UAdhE-9Cusbg-9VdUhE-9VbfwX-9Cxn7Q-jCasvG-jAj3GL-bLNwkV-bxTSZN-bxTUSU-9FTLtP-9FWFGb-9FTLv8-bYAWPE-9Ju9k1-vBKfw-bvHFmq-6U425k-kZCfr3" target="_blank" rel="external">Grammaticus Bramlington</a> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/" target="_blank" rel="external">CC BY 2.0</a></span>

Making the area safe took much longer than anticipated due to the mass evacuation, but residents were able to return to their homes on Sunday evening. Read more: thelocal.de