Overview
- Two British five-hundredweight aerial bombs were uncovered during work on Sankt-Franziskus-Straße in the Mörsenbroich district, according to the city.
- An evacuation within roughly 400 meters affects about 4,000 to 4,200 people, with a reception center at the Friedrich-Rückert-Gymnasium and shuttle buses provided.
- The Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf bomb disposal team is slated to carry out the defusal today, with evacuations targeted for completion by 4 p.m. and work potentially extending past 6 p.m., including a controlled fuse blast.
- Childcare facilities, public transport and road traffic face restrictions, including a Rheinbahn bus detour, and the city has activated a danger hotline for residents.
- Police reported further ordnance checks near Völklinger Straße and said a phosphorus grenade found there was removed; separately, a 250-kilogram bomb in Wedel was defused on Jan. 11 after a large evacuation.