Overview
- Workers uncovered a 5‑zentner device with a long‑delay fuze between the Spich and Lind interchanges during surveying.
- Police shut the A59 in both directions near the Cologne/Bonn Airport corridor, with ADAC reporting delays and wide detours.
- Specialized ordnance teams from the Düsseldorf regional service and Cologne’s public order office led the operation with a roughly 400‑meter safety zone.
- Crews delivered about 60 tonnes of sand to dampen the blast, and the bomb was detonated at about 15:30 local time.
- Evacuation covered commercial sites including an Amazon facility but no residential areas, and restrictions outside the motorway are now being lifted.