100Kg World War II bomb defused in Berlin
15 June 2019; DW: An unexploded 100-kilogram (220-pound) bomb from World War II was unearthed at a construction site near Berlin's Alexanderplatz and later defused, police said on Twitter in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Police said there were "unexpected technical problems" but that they were "quickly taken care of."
Authorities had closed off an area within a 300-meter (1,000-foot) radius of the bomb as it was being defused but said only part of the area needed to be evacuated.
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