Bomb find prompts evacuation

Some 600 people were evacuated from the old city of Frankfurt so specialists could remove a Second World War-era bomb discovered in the Main River.

German news agency dpa reported the bomb was defused, as planned, underwater on Sunday, which led to a loud detonation and a big water fountain on the river. Police said “the bomb is no longer a danger.”

Firefighters had discovered the American 550lb bomb during diving training in the river.

Even more than 70 years after the end of the war, bombs and other munitions still turn up regularly in Germany.