Overview
- A 70-kilogram U.S. aerial bomb from World War II with a live fuze was discovered at the Südfriedhof cemetery in Nuremberg.
- Police, firefighters, and bomb-disposal specialists have deployed about 80 responders to secure the site and manage the operation.
- Authorities are evacuating roughly 300 residents from the surrounding area, and officials say only about half of the zone is cleared so far.
- The bomb squad will begin the defusal only after the evacuation is complete to keep people out of harm’s way.
- To reduce risk, officials shut off gas near a pipeline, reserved nearby airspace for the operation, and directed residents to an online evacuation map and a care center at Georg-Holzbauer-Schule.