An unexploded Second World War bomb was found near the
Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund on Thursday morning. The bomb
was defused safely midway through the afternoon.

Just hours before Dortmund head coach Jürgen Klopp was due
to give his press conference ahead of the derby against Schalke,
a 250-kilogram (550-pound) unexploded bomb of British origin
was discovered near Borussia Dortmund's stadium, the Signal
Iduna Park. The bomb was difused at just after 15:00 local time
(14:00 UTC), whereupon it was taken to a temporary holding in
Hagen before it will later be destroyed in a disassembly plant in
North Rhein-Westphalia.
With a 250-meter safety radius, both the stadium and the fan
world were evacuated as well as everyone living in the area.
"The area is sparsely populated. Nevertheless, we've got to
make sure that there's no one inside the restricted area.
Especially in the Bolmketal garden district," said city
spokesman Hans-Joachim Skupsch to Ruhr Nachrichten on
Thursday morning.
As was confirmed by a statement on the Dortmund city council's
website, the unexploded bomb was found on the west side of the
stadium on a construction site after analysis of an aerial
photograph. Approximately 20 minutes after the news that the
bomb had been disposed, the club confired via Twitter that the
stadium and FanWorld area had been reopened.
The ground below many German cities remains littered with
unexploded bombs dropped by Allied and Soviet forces during
the Second World War. Most of the bombs are safely defused
once discovered, but with hundreds of thousands of aerial
photographs from the Second World War, it's hard to pinpoint
exact locations.
In Germany's capital, Berlin, authorities believe 3,000 bombs
still remain undiscovered, and experts warn that some of the
munitions are growing increasingly dangerous as they rust and
their fuses grow more brittle.

Source: www.dw.de/unexploded-wwii-bomb-found-near-dortmunds-signal-iduna-park/a-18282545

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