Overview

• During construction near Cologne’s Sachsenring, workers uncovered a 500 kg US-made bomb and authorities evacuated about 5,200 residents within a 400 m radius.
• Specialists from the Düsseldorf Kampfmittelbeseitigungsdienst safely defused the Cologne bomb at 7:10 a.m. on Tuesday without injuries, allowing streets to reopen.
• In Dresden-Hosterwitz, a partially detonated US bomb was found at a SachsenEnergie waterworks site and triggered a 500 m exclusion zone around the discovery.
• Bomb disposal experts carried out a controlled detonation at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, lifting evacuations and road closures after confirming no casualties or infrastructure damage.
• Germany uncovers roughly 5,000 unexploded World War II bombs each year, presenting ongoing challenges that rely on highly trained bomb squads for evacuation and disposal.