Berlin neighbourhood to be evacuated after WWII bomb found

BERLIN – German police say a Berlin neighbourhood will be evacuated after construction workers uncovered an unexploded bomb with its fuse intact that was dropped by an Allied plane during World War II.

Police said Monday the 250-kilogram (550-pound) American bomb was discovered midday during work in the Rummelsburg neighbourhood of the capital, about two kilometres (more than a mile) from a former stretch of the Berlin Wall that has been painted by artists known as the East Side Gallery, a popular tourist destination.

A radius of 250 metres (yards) around the bomb site will be evacuated Tuesday morning as disposal experts defuse and remove it.

World War II bombs are still found regularly in many major German cities, more than 70 years after the Nazis were defeated.

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