FRANKFURT, GERMANY ¨C Around 60,000 inhabitants of Germany¡¯s financial capital Frankfurt will be ordered to leave their homes on Sunday while a large World War II bomb discovered at a building site is made safe, the police said.
Germany¡¯s central bank, the Bundesbank, Frankfurt¡¯s Goethe University, and at least two hospitals will also be evacuated, in one of the largest evacuations in German postwar history.
The 1.4-ton HC 4000 bomb dropped by the Royal Air Force was uncovered on a building site on Wismarer Strasse in Frankfurt¡¯s leafy Westend, where many wealthy bankers live.
Bomb disposal experts who examined it said the massive evacuation could wait until the weekend.
¡°We are still working on the modalities of the evacuation plan,¡± a spokeswoman for Frankfurt police said on Wednesday.
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