Overview
- Cities including Düsseldorf and Nürnberg reported WWII ordnance on Thursday, Oct. 22, prompting large evacuation zones, reception centres for displaced people and changes to local transport services.
- Dortmund authorities found two British 250-kilogram unexploded bombs in Westfalenpark and closed the B1 highway while bomb-disposal teams prepared controlled on-site detonations because the detonators could not be moved.
- In Nürnberg a WWII American bomb discovered at the Rangierbahnhof halted work and forced a 750-meter evacuation radius with a care centre set up at NCC West, and initial reports gave the bomb’s weight as 225–250 kilograms.
- Düsseldorf’s sondierungs in Mörsenbroich uncovered an about 500-kilogram American ‘Fünf-Zentner’ bomb, a 300-meter exclusion zone was ordered affecting roughly 2,700 people, and the city organised buses and the Friedrich-Rückert-Gymnasium as a reception site.
- Bottrop is conducting sondierungen at five suspected sites near the Welheimer Mark with possible evacuations up to 500 meters if ordnance is confirmed, and officials remind residents that most checks do not lead to detonations and to follow official channels and the NINA warning app for updates.