About 14,000 people entered Osnabrück allowed to return to his home. Four unexploded bombs from the Second World War are no longer dangerous. “That’s it: the evacuation has been lifted,” the city government said.
The Ordnance Service detonated a grenade and a 500-pound bomb and previously defused two bombs of different sizes, he said. According to the statement, a demolition expert said: “We could have finished earlier if our work had not been interrupted too often.” This is very annoying and makes working on unexploded bombs much more dangerous.
The city government announced throughout the evening that because people continued to try to get into the evacuation area, the work of explosive ordnance experts had been delayed by more than three hours.
More than 14,000 people had to leave their homes since morning. By noon, the evacuation within a radius of one kilometer had actually been completed.
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