Overview

• The evacuation began at 9 a.m. with door-to-door notifications by 160 Ordnungsamt officers and concluded before the bomb was neutralized at 2:48 p.m.
• Six water-filled containers and 125 firefighters were stationed around the Uniklinik Köln to absorb any potential blast impact.
• Uniklinik Köln suspended outpatient treatments and halted new admissions as large sections of its campus were cleared for safety measures.
• In Bochum, a 250-kg WWII bomb discovered near the VfL Bochum training ground prompted a 250-metre exclusion zone and evacuation of about 100 residents and hotel guests.
• The A40 motorway at the Stadion/RuhrCongress junction remains closed ahead of tonight’s planned defusal of the Bochum device.