Overview
- Construction workers uncovered a protruding bomb tip on a Seehafenstraße site in Heimfeld and alerted emergency services.
- Authorities set a 300-meter exclusion zone and a 500-meter warning radius that affected nearby S-Bahn tracks and local waterways.
- Fire crews and the Kampfmittelräumdienst responded with 25 firefighters and four bomb-disposal specialists and began disposal operations on site.
- The device was rendered safe in a controlled detonation and officials later lifted the cordons, with initial reports saying the full size and type of the ordnance remained unclear at first.
- The find follows a similar defusal earlier in October and underlines how marshy wartime soil and current redevelopment raise the chance of uncovering 'blindgänger', which can cause repeated local evacuations and transport disruption.