{"id":69631,"date":"2019-09-03T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=69631"},"modified":"2019-09-03T11:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T11:04:04","slug":"thousands-evacuated-in-germany-as-wwii-bomb-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/thousands-evacuated-in-germany-as-wwii-bomb-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands evacuated in Germany as WWII bomb found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 15,000 people were evacuated late Monday from the northern German city of Hanover following the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb, city officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents of the capital of the state of Lower Saxony were told to leave their homes in the early evening as a precaution on the discovery of the 250 kilogram device, city authorities said on their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were expected to be able to return by nightfall. The unearthing of World War II era bombs is a common occurrence in Hanover, home to some 500,000 people and one of dozens of cities the Allies targeted during the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June, one such device had to be made safe near Berlin&#8217;s popular Alexanderplatz square. Two years ago, some 65,000 people had to be temporarily evacuated the largest such operation since 1945 when a huge British bomb weighing 1.4 tons was discovered in Frankfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around one in ten of the millions of bombs dropped over Germany during the war did not go off, according to experts cited by news weekly Der Spiegel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 15,000 people were evacuated late Monday from the northern German city of Hanover following the discovery of an unexploded World War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69633,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69631\/revisions\/69633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}