In Frankfurt am Main, a record evacuation in the post-war history of Germany.

"Cursor" reported that today in Frankfurt am Main must be cleared bombs during World War II. As it was planned, 60 thousand local residents were evacuated. The bomb, which according to the specified data weighs 1.8 tons and contains almost 1.5 tons of explosives, was found on Tuesday, August 29, while carrying out construction work on the campus of the Goethe University in the largest city of the federal state of Hesse.

According to Deutsche Welle, the British air bomb of the Second World War caused the largest evacuation in the history of post-war Germany. Special services carefully check the territory, which should be absolutely deserted. Sappers will begin to neutralize the bomb during the day. In addition to residential buildings, the building of the police cordon Frankfurt, several hospitals, a branch of the bank Mizrachi, as well as the headquarters of the media company Hessischer Rundfunk, were included in the cordon zone, which was 1.5 kilometers in radius.

Before the discovery in Frankfurt am Main, the largest evacuation in the history of Germany was carried out at the end of 2016 in Augsburg. Then about 54 thousand inhabitants were forced to leave their homes. In the neutralization of three bombs in May 2017 in Hanover in a safe place, almost 50 thousand people were transported.