Overview

• Officials issued the all-clear at about 20:30 local time after a bomb-disposal diver neutralized the device.
• Roughly 3,350 people who had been told to evacuate in Hannover’s Misburg-Süd district were allowed to return home.
• The ordnance was a British five-hundredweight bomb located in a water-filled retention basin near Anderter Straße.
• Fire service figures put the response at 336 personnel from the fire brigade, police, aid organizations and the bomb-disposal service.
• Deutsche Bahn temporarily closed an ICE line, rerouting trains via Hildesheim and Celle before restoring normal service after the all-clear.