Overview

• In Hannover’s Misburg-Süd, a British five-centner bomb found in a water-filled retention basin was defused by a diver on Monday evening.
• Authorities had called on about 3,350 residents to evacuate before the operation concluded with an all-clear.
• Deutsche Bahn briefly closed an ICE route for the disposal, rerouting long-distance trains via Hildesheim and Celle before reopening the line.
• The response in Hannover involved 336 personnel from fire services, aid organizations, police and the bomb-disposal service.
• In Saalekreis (Braunsbedra, Neumark), officials set a 750-meter exclusion zone for a five-centner American bomb with a tail fuze, prepared an evacuation and scheduled specialists to attempt defusal on Tuesday, with exact impacts still being determined.