Overview
- The unexploded devices were uncovered during construction on Sankt-Franziskus-Straße in the Mörsenbroich district.
- City officials identified the finds as British five-hundredweight aerial bombs from World War II.
- Up to about 4,000 residents must leave homes within a 400-meter radius to enable the controlled defusal later today.
- The Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst will carry out the defusal once the city’s coordination team sets the exact timing, after which a public information hotline will go live.
- Police reported a separate suspected find near Völklinger Straße that is being examined and has not been confirmed as a bomb.