Cologne evacuates 20,000 residents to defuse WWII bombs
Over 20,000 residents in Cologne were evacuated as experts worked to defuse three unexploded WWII bombs discovered during road construction, marking the largest such operation since WWII. The city evacuated residents within a 1,000-meter radius, closed key sites, and deployed bomb disposal teams to safely neutralize the bombs, highlighting ongoing risks from unexploded wartime ordnance in Germany.