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Dresden city centre to be evacuated after WW2 bomb found
The bomb was found during reconstruction work near Dresden’s Carola Bridge, forcing evacuation of 18,000 residents and visitors for the largest WWII bomb disposal in the city.
- On March 11, 2026, Dresden city authorities ordered around 18,000 residents, tourists and commuters to evacuate by 09:00 after discovering a 250-kilogramme British unexploded bomb near the Carola Bridge, prompting the city's largest evacuation for such an incident.
- During bridge-repair work, crews discovered the device after the Carola Bridge partial collapse in 2024; four other bombs found last year prompted earlier evacuations.
- The 1,000-metre cordon covers the Frauenkirche Lutheran church and the Semperoper, an emergency shelter opened at the Dresden Exhibition Centre from 07:00, and more than 400 police plus helicopter and drone swept the zone.
- Police said the device was defused later on Wednesday, with bomb disposal specialists removing the detonator at 3:10 pm before exploding and removing the bomb, and the evacuation zone reopening after a final safety check.
- Recalled WWII ordnance finds, including last year's bombs and Cologne's June evacuation, reflect Dresden's ongoing pattern of unexploded bomb discoveries following heavy Allied raids in February 1945, which killed up to 25,000 and destroyed 90% of the city center.
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World War II bomb in Germany's Dresden defused after city centre evacuation
An unexploded World War II bomb was successfully defused in the German city of Dresden on Wednesday, police said, after it caused a huge evacuation operation. The discovery caused officials to evacuate 18,000 people on Wednesday, the largest such operation ever in the eastern German city, emergency services said.
·India
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18,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes so that bomb disposal experts could defuse a 240-kilogram British bomb.
The neutralization of the projectile took almost all day this Wednesday, while an evacuation order was issued by the German authorities within a radius of one kilometre.
·Paris, France
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